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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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[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Social media in general.

Watching a lot of stuff from the era, it seemed to completely miss the mark on how social media as a concept would work.

[–] tunetardis@piefed.ca 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

In the 80s, my nerdy friends were already having LAN parties and some of them set up BBS's over spare land lines, which were sort of like an early social media just for your immediate friend group but not connected globally or anything.

Fast forward to the present day, and one of said friends invited me to a discord that was modelled after his old BBS. It's actually active and fun to catch up with everyone who's found their way back.

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I was one of those nerds. And BBS actually were the 2ND greatest time I had, tech-wise. It was a fascinating new world, beyond imagination. I had one demoscene-board which also was the NC (net-coordinator) of a well-known message-net á la Fido-net.

And one for warez. At the height of it, one CD with a handful zerodays went for like 400 moneyz. Wasn't about the money though.

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[–] debil@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (7 children)

Well, still no flying cars.

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[–] TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (3 children)

and yet we are told that it's too hard/expensive to add a 16 gb Video Cache to a consumer graphic card.

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[–] SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Synthstrom Deluge. Sampler, sequencer, synthesizer, all in one and open source. Portable too, takes a 18650.

This video isn't solely a Deluge, but you get the sorta idea of what sort of power house this thing is in the hands of a music nerd.

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