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What is something that's crazier than the wildest dreams of any ~1970s nerd, but exists today? I'll start with an easy one: (lemmy.ml)

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[–] forbiddencherry@lemmy.today 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Or having a mouse at all. Even in the late 80's, mice were a luxury item. And those horrible resistive touch screens in the auto parts store were a nightmare compared to today's capacitive phone screens.

Light pens were cool, though.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah I paid $60 for a mouse in 1984/1985. My friend borrowed it to try it out and a few weeks later his mom got rid of his computer along with my mouse. Nooooooo!