Re:ReStuff
by eyelidlessness on Friday November 27, 2020 @06:36PM
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In addition to the sibling comment about computer history, a lot of HN content that ends up front page is focused on preservation of aging content whose formats have gone out of vogue or whose content/platform has been replaced, edited or discontinued. I’m usually pretty meh on some of these (like, I found the recent Internet Archive stuff about Flash good news but not compelling to read about in depth), but this particular link struck me as a curiosity just by being an unusual niche for this site and audience... and because I was one of the tiny population who was raised with and (almost) never deviated from the Apple ecosystem. I’m fascinated and a little tickled by the fact that that old island still has someone in the lighthouse. It’s not a platform I have any interest in using anymore, but my inner child and teenager is glad someone’s still tending the garden. (Many apologies for the metaphor soup; credit to sleep deprivation)
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I also grew up on Macs, but I swore off Apple in 2009. I keep a few old systems around, though, since I'm a nostalgic person. I just got my Power Macintosh 7100 on the net yesterday. There's still a couple of Hotline servers up. Good times.
Re:ReStuff
by eyelidlessness on Friday November 27, 2020 @06:51PM
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I’m curious what in 2009 was the tipping point for you. In no way am I interested in challenging your switch, it’s just really interesting timing (as that was around the time nearly all of Apple’s product lines were growing rapidly even among the general HN audience).
Yeah, it was a weird time to do it. I'd been gravitating towards Linux for a while (including a lot of trying to get it to work on my iBook), and in 2009 I finally had the money for a decent new computer, so I got a Lenovo X200.