Re: Hardcore Computist Magazine online...

["vector" <someasshole@aol.com>]

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 22:23:50 -0500, Chris Morse wrote:

> Wow!  I didn't know there was a digitized collection of the old Apple II
> magazine "Hardcore Computist" on the web.. Part of textfiles.com. Just
> discovered this myself, and it's some great reading!

Textfiles.com depresses the all-loving crap out of me, because I can't
keep from reading those "I remember when" articles about late 80s, early
90s computing, and I miss that time so desperately.  Telnetted into my
shell account with my ISP, running povray scripts.  Shoving the povray
thread into the background and disconnecting from the ISP to call up my
local BBS and play a little Legend of the Red Dragon, see who's on the
Chatline.  Drive to Waffle House at 3 AM and trade SIMMs for used CD-ROMs
and external modems.  LAN parties, lugging my PC in, before broadband made
that unnecessary and every game turned into either Quake or Warcraft.
Praying multi-megabyte downloads would finish before my modem dropped
carrier for no discernible reason.  Knowing most of my friends only by
their handle.

Usenet is the only pure thing left from those days.  It was always filled
with warez d00dz, trolls, and pron.  Thank god the AOL users never decided
usenet was worth anything to them.  Usenet is like a fucking wilderness
preserve, a living monument to the Way It Was.


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