Yup. It was like an oversized mouse with a scan bar and roller at the front. You had to roll it over your document at a constant slow speed or all you got was a murky blur. The computer guy must have seen us rubes coming in 1997
yes -
*points at computer mouse top left corner* this is a left click,
and this,
*points at computer mouse top right corner* this is a right click
*points at screen* they make the pink horsey
…“flantclarf”: the trend of computer rectangularity, from the windows in guis, to the shapes of tablets and mobiles, to the shapes of monitors, keyboards, motherboards, power supplies, to the limiting case such that computing feels only like sorting and arranging rectangles inside other rectangles..
…the idea that that’s “a computer” is kind of hazardous, and Ford’s interaction with the Guide’s computer systems is the stepping stone, let me find a quote
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Everyone knows the Internet is for cat videos and porn.
Who has that kind of money.
it was all a bad dream, computers are still the size of refrigerators
*points at computer mouse top left corner* this is a left click,
and this,
*points at computer mouse top right corner* this is a right click
*points at screen* they make the pink horsey
sounds like b.s.
Happy posting!