On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 01:40:07AM -0500,
fouldragon@aol.com wrote:
>
> Y'know, as I sit here looking at a 24" monitor that cost the equivalent
> of 20 hours' salary, next to a computer with more memory than existed
> in the world in 1965, I have to say, in a way, I long for the days when
> technology was huge, ominous, and limited to the highly trained elite.
>
> I wish I wasn't writing PHP for web users to see pretty pictures, but
> rather C that generated bland text on green screens.
>
> I was born 25 years too late.
Some of us born too young still believe computers can be used to do
useful work instead of only doing fancy window effects and web browsing
;-)
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