Brian Swetland on Nostr: A thought: Which is the last generation that remembers (using) computers that just ...
A thought: Which is the last generation that remembers (using) computers that just hard crashed all the time?
Who learned to Save Often and Make Backups because even if the App worked great, the whole machine might just blow up at any moment.
I feel like, for me, this pretty much stopped being a thing by the early 2000s. But I also started using Linux as a primary OS in the mid-90s, so mostly saw Win95/ME/etc from afar.
I do remember when X11 would sometimes just explode, killing all my apps.
Who learned to Save Often and Make Backups because even if the App worked great, the whole machine might just blow up at any moment.
I feel like, for me, this pretty much stopped being a thing by the early 2000s. But I also started using Linux as a primary OS in the mid-90s, so mostly saw Win95/ME/etc from afar.
I do remember when X11 would sometimes just explode, killing all my apps.