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[dasusers @dasusers]

$OLD Can we stand the test of time?

[Computer ♥ Records @ComputerLove_]

26 years ago.

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

Patience was the killer app of the 1980s.

Now I don’t want to go on a rant here, but I think that psychologically, the single biggest difference between the GenX experience in the 80s and kids today is that we had to manage our own boredom.

If you were a latchkey kid who came home to an empty house after school and had to entertain yourself, you couldn’t just doomscroll TikTok.

If you didn’t have premium cable, you could listen to music, so you likely put an album on, because the tiny dopamine bump you get from skipping to a new song somehow doesn’t rise to the level of getting up, walking over, fast forwarding, searching for a track, overshooting, backing up the tape, and so on. Today it’s a flick on a screen. It used to be a whole operation.

And so patience was a virtue, and in many very tangible ways, it’s a virtue that still pays off today.

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[dasusers @dasusers]

That blinking cursor was a door indeed.

https://t.co/nBwy9NwaHR

[Tom's Hardware @tomshardware]

Relive the PC magazine cover disk era with 758-strong https://t.co/yTU7X5tPu4 CD-ROM collection — 1.2TB treasure trove also includes Floppy Disks from as early as 1993 https://t.co/rg3k34aOmm

[DeFi Dev Corp. (DFDV) @defidevcorp]

Delusional $SOL bulls always win in the end.

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

256KB

[RetroBayArea @RetroBayArea]

This is what a computer assembly plant in 1970s Silicon Valley looked like. San Jose, 1978.

Back when America actually built its own computers, IBM was doing it right here in San Jose. That campus is now a Lowe’s Home Improvement.

Manufacturing operations continued there into the 1990s, including the assembly of large disk drives in clean-room facilities. Over time, IBM gradually moved manufacturing overseas, primarily to countries in Asia such as China, Malaysia, and Thailand. Key manufacturing buildings on the Cottle Road campus were closed by 1996.

A few years later, IBM shifted its focus from manufacturing to research and development, and its current San Jose-area presence consists primarily of research labs rather than production facilities.

Today, the former Cottle Road location is occupied by the Lowe’s Home Improvement store at 5550 Cottle Rd, San Jose.

Look it up on Google Maps. The only remaining reminder is the IBM Cottle Road Campus Historic Landmark, which is visible in the Lowe’s parking lot.

source footage 🎥: KPIX

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

The Dirty Little Secret of AI:

I wanted to see if I could train a full neural network on a real 1979 PDP-11. Spoiler alert - I did.

Allow me to explain transformers and attention when they're reduced to their most basic forms, all in 6K of program code...

[BULL @bulltheleader]

bears don’t know bulls plan

[dasusers @dasusers]

@GithubProjects Or on a Saturday or Sunday, please and thank you.

[Solana Foundation @SolanaFndn]

Solana Foundation is now a member of the x402 Foundation, joining Amazon, American Express, Circle, Cloudflare, Coinbase, Fiserv, Google, Mastercard, Microsoft, Shopify, Stripe, Visa, and more.

The x402 protocol now has a neutral, open-source home at @linuxfoundation

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

Every AI agent deserves a crypto wallet.

In fact, there will be more AI agents transacting online than humans very soon. x402 is the internet payments layer (which has been missing for the last 30 years), and will enable this.

The new x402 foundation will exist under the Linux Foundation, with @Coinbase, @Cloudflare and @Stripe as key contributors. Once all agents start transacting natively on the internet at scale, entirely new product and business opportunities will open up.

[dasusers @dasusers]

@bonk_inu Going to be tasty!

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

There's a lot of stuff you can do in your garage, but most people are lying on the sofa. Get busy.

[dasusers @dasusers]

@dogeofficialceo Oh slick Rick!

[Akhilesh Mishra @livingdevops]

Dennis Ritchie created C in the early 1970s without Google, Stack Overflow, GitHub, or any AI ( Claude, Cursor, Codex) assistant.

- No VC funding.
- No viral launch.
- No TED talk.
- Just two engineers at Bell Labs. A terminal. And a problem to solve.

He built a language that fit in kilobytes.

50 years later, it runs everything.

Linux kernel. Windows. macOS.

Every iPhone. Every Android.

NASA’s deep space probes.

The International Space Station.

> Python borrowed from it.
> Java borrowed from it.
> JavaScript borrowed from it.

If you have ever written a single line of code in any language, you did it in Dennis Ritchie’s shadow.

He died in 2011.
The same week as Steve Jobs.
Jobs got the front pages.
Ritchie got silence.

This Legend deserves to be celebrated.

[Cipher @Cipher_twt]

– Created Linux that runs most of the internet.
– Git didn’t exist, so he built Git in 10 days.
– His code powers Android, servers, supercomputers.
– Never built a company around it.
- Just released it to the world for free.

absolute 🐐

[dasusers @dasusers]

@BullTheoryio Imagine telling people you are concerned about safety then demand it be ignored.