Listen, Liberal -
Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?
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Sunday, 1 October 2017
quote [ The early graphical client Eudora was how people checked their email in the ’90s. But in the end, only the power users stuck around. Here’s what you missed. ]
So I'm sending you my heart, my soul
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Franger Sanger said @ 4:10am GMT on 2nd October
Quite a trip back reading about Eudora and Winsock. Occasionally a flashback to an old GUI or an odd bit of software will spark a little nostalgia but I didn't feel that here.
Looking over the tech that does make me feel nostalgic, it's the stuff that felt like The Future at the time that does it. Reading "Compter Lib/Dream Machines" in the 70s; Opening up my Apple IIe and seeing all the expandable slots in 1984; resizing and moving windows on my Amiga 500 and running programs simultaneously in 1988; semi-abandoned overambitious MUDs in the early 90s; streaming music directly from David Bowie's website in 1998.
Eudora never felt like the future. Like a lot of programs at the time it was awesomely nerdy, fine-tuned for super users and tinkerers. But the nerdy bits didn't seem like The Future. Sending an email to yourself to change internal settings is awesomely geeky, but still a kludge - to fix a complex system that was built on kludge after kludge.
The tech that reinvented from the ground up is the stuff that gets me bittersweet.
Franger Sanger said @ 4:11am GMT on 2nd October
Quite a trip back reading about Eudora and Winsock. Occasionally a flashback to an old GUI or an odd bit of software will spark a little nostalgia but I didn't feel that here.
Looking over the tech that does make me feel nostalgic, it's the stuff that felt like The Future at the time that does it. Reading "Computer Lib/Dream Machines" in the 70s; opening up my Apple IIe and seeing all the expandable slots in 1984; resizing and moving windows on my Amiga 500 and running programs simultaneously in 1988; semi-abandoned overambitious MUDs in the early 90s; streaming music directly from David Bowie's website in 1998.
Eudora never felt like the future. Like a lot of programs at the time it was awesomely nerdy, fine-tuned for super users and tinkerers. But the nerdy bits didn't seem like The Future. Sending an email to yourself to change internal settings is awesomely geeky, but still a kludge - to fix a complex system that was built on kludge after kludge.
The tech that reinvented from the ground up is the stuff that gets me bittersweet.
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Franger Sanger said @ 4:10am GMT on 2nd October
Quite a trip back reading about Eudora and Winsock. Occasionally a flashback to an old GUI or an odd bit of software will spark a little nostalgia but I didn't feel that here.
Looking over the tech that does make me feel nostalgic, it's the stuff that felt like The Future at the time that does it. Reading "Computer Lib/Dream Machines" in the 70s; opening up my Apple IIe and seeing all the expandable slots in 1984; resizing and moving windows on my Amiga 500 and running programs simultaneously in 1988; semi-abandoned overambitious MUDs in the early 90s; streaming music directly from David Bowie's website in 1998.
Eudora never felt like the future. Like a lot of programs at the time it was awesomely nerdy, fine-tuned for super users and tinkerers. But the nerdy bits didn't seem like The Future. Sending an email to yourself to change internal settings is awesomely geeky, but still a kludge - to fix a complex system that was built on kludge after kludge.
The tech that reinvented from the ground up is the stuff that gets me bittersweet.
