Writing wasn't cheap, and preserving and transmitting writing isn't cheap. (Although the vast majority has still been lost, just from estimating based on works cited by ancient works that we don't have copies of) We only know even this because Rome was such a powerful and rich culture that there was a lot of writing, and a comparatively lot got saved for centuries. But since all that is wood, it's all gone. I was kinda shocked to read this description and how similar it was to a modern city. The poorest were at the top with no way to cook and relied on street carts. The middle class were in the middle, with some kitchen facilities they operated themselves. The richest were at the bottom nearest the latrine, and had their own kitchen and servants to work the kitchen. Most people lived in 3 or 4 IIRC story rowhouses. Since most stuff except for some monuments was built with wood, it's all gone now. This reminds me of recently learning more about ancient Rome. You gotta jump into the new tech to get that feeling of wonder and possibly. So much of the internet experience now is about monetization. Later, it seemed like the ads went away but actually they took over. In the 90s, there was a question whether or not you should include ads and banners on your site. On irc, you can whois, dcc, technical bits everywhere in the UI. Today, all the technical bits are hidden away and user experiences are carefully controlled and tuned for engagement. And what content is actually written by a real person, it's in service to their brand and it's tuned for engagement and sharing on social media.Ī lot of software back then was open and didn't hide too many of the details. Now it feels like every search result is just 100 pages of AI generated, generic content used to drive clicks to the site. Maybe a bit of the magic was your youth, but the tech was new and magical to everyone.Įvery article I read back then was written by a real person about something they cared about. The internet was full of early adopter, tech enthusiast types. So, it's all fun and games until a server is hard rebooted.īoth. When the project manager arrived, he went to check on the status of the server, only to find the BSOD. The main dev on the project comes in, sees the bluescreen and proceeds to restart the computer! Oops.Ī few years later, on another multi-year large software project at this PNW tech company, the morning that the software was supposed to be signed off and released to manufacturing, the build lab, different group of people, installed the BSOD screensaver and disconnected the mouse and keyboard on the dogfood server for the project. They installed the BSOD screensaver and disconnected the mouse and keyboard. Wasn't long before the guys in the build lab took advantage of the screensaver. Released it to the company intranet and waited for the ensuing hilarity. Less than an hour later, most of it spent transcribing the bluescreen text output, I had a BSOD screensaver. Later that day, I read in one of the trade rags about a columnist talking about the efficacy of a bluescreen screensaver. Working on a next-gen operating system for a large tech company in the Pacific NorthWest in the previous century, I was able to reliably bluescreen the OS when stressing the network using an internal network protocol driver.
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