I Was Told To Never Stop Being Me Somewhat Recently. It Sounds Nice, But Man, I Wish I Could Be The Person

What do you think would surprise a person from the 1950s most about modern computers?

How disposable they've become. We toss away computers like old socks.

How we got away from the model of timesharing for so long, only to go right back to cloud computing. People were so eager to personalize the experience, it's why things like the PDP-1 came into existance in the late 50s.

How much software went from this thing that was freely, openly shared as just a point of fact to a world where people pay for software regularly.

How much people trust a computer to think for them. A computer cannot think, it can only do math really fast, *you* have to think about how to make use of that platform to make your workload easier. People using computers in the 50s understood this implicitly, and now some people want shitty autocomplete to do the hard part for them. The human tasks that are worth doing, but that's a whole rant in itself.

How much computers just get powered off, or just run without doing anything, because of how plentiful and commonplace they are. In the 50s, no computer time was wasted, it was too expensive. If the machine was operational back then, it was busy.

My new hobby is romanticizing romance

Let’s see what Dave has to say about that

Pig, the cat.

I wish I knew people my age out here.

Abandoned. I loved the brickwork and the sharp shadows.

Dude looks like a Sly Cooper villain

"do you want him to wear the little hat?"

"yes please"