Re:Why lasers are so brilliantly useful
by cogman10 on Thursday January 14, 2021 @11:54AM
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Right there with you. My first linux machine was an old Pentium 2 Gateway box :D.
I also grew up in idaho mountains so you can imagine how bad radio stations were. Nothing but talk radio and one "hits" station.
Napster was a small lifeline into the rest of the world, though for the longest time we were 5 to 10 years behind the rest of the world when it came to things like pop music. It was bizarre!
how I wanted to learn advanced math topics, foreign languages, etc, but there was no way for me to learn it.
How amazed I was when our school library got those encyclopedia disks and we can look up a lot of things
how I use to dial home with 2 rings to signal my mom to pick me up at school. Telephone company eventually gave us a huge bill.
when I wanted to experiment with linux and other various tech, but getting ahold of hardware to experiment with was too expensive for me.