Re:New part day: Finally a 100% new Commodore 64 can be built
by dan_quixote on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @02:36PM
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Assuming continued forward progress, this feeling is true of each generation. But when I get nostalgia about all the progress the world made since my early childhood in the 80s...I think about my great grandfather who was 8-ish when the Wright Brothers made their first flight, 40s when the atomic bomb was developed, 73 when the first man walked on the moon, and then lived another 20 years!
Back then, very few people had these. Now, nearly everyone has something much much more powerful in their pocket/purse or on their wrist.
I do pity younger kids today not having that feeling. The was a mystique around them. Now, it's just part and parcel of everyday life. Everything new now is just an upgraded version of something prior. Back then, it was all so new. I can't think of anything that would have the same feeling for kids today.