I think another factor is that media was a lot slower back then, and a lot more limited, and what feels like in retrospect, a lower cost of living, it didn't seem like they needed much to get by, always love how they borrowed their computers from work lol.

Have you read Masters of Doom? (is a good book, with some corrections though), Romero has put a lot of pictures of those days up online, so you can live vicariously...

*A book called Renegades of the software empire.

This might actually be mentioned in the book that I'm currently reading regarding the origin of DirectX (or if it has, I've already forgotten because I stopped reading that book a month ago, and need to get back into it)

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But the weather was bad, and we just couldn't find a parking spot (if you know me IRL you know what city I'm talking about)

Today started with the promise of Udon noodles at a sit down restaurant.

/ since you've been sitting in the sin bin for over 30 minutes at this point and you just want to go home.

I think the version I have on my work PC is either an older version or someone in corporate turned off all the AI prompts, but had I known that I would have changed my workflow...

Like with shorts, I'm going to have to adjust my user behaviour to completely ignore that section. At least on desktop I can block those elements.

I honestly hate the paradigm of modern website/application layouts that are built to maximise engagement.

It's bad enough that shorts get their own area and aren't put in line with the subscription feed.

I have also given up on trying to locate the appropriate reaction image.