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Anyone here old enough to miss 1980's computer days?

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Anyone here old enough to miss 1980's computer days?

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Casual Conversation @lemm.eeEnglish · 4 days ago

It was so fun back then. Not the yelling and moaning we have going on today.

Here on Lemmy, even in non-political discussions some is always whining about the current president or whatever.

Or calling for alt voices to be banned.

Back in the 80’s computer stuff and conversation was more fun and not so freakin’ political.

It was about games, DYI, trying to learn to hack, learning the new tech. It was awesome!

I was part of it, but not as much as I could have been because I was in a small town and couldn’t afford a lot. But I def had a foot in the scene, and it was awesome!

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ANSI art!

wget http://artscene.textfiles.com/ansi/welcomes/brokrose.ans && ansilove -R2 brokrose.ans

It looks like it was more a 1990s thing – I don’t think I’d seen ANSI art in the 1980s – but it extended to the 1980s.
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  I was totally into the that art scene! lmao I’d even print that shit out on my dot-matrix printer!

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