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Just here for cool vintage stuff especially tech stuff. TRS 80 and ti-99 afficanado
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Fantastic #C64 Pixel Art.

youtube.com/shorts/KPmAb... dirt man gets it. As a (formerly) blue collar queer...100%

I can't get more retro than this - Bouncing Ball, a demo for the MIT Whirlwind computer, was the first ever real time digital physics simulation, now emulated. Turn a dial and alter the physics in real time - in the tech of 1950!

#moodboard

youtu.be/ZG_k5CSYKhg?... I dare someone to find a music video that better encapsulates the early 90s

Some very happy VAX users...

They are transvestigating Shrek now.

My local squirrels need less fiber in their diet. I won't have Internet for almost an hour while they resplice.

Went to the pharmacy and they want $40 for colonoscopy prep stuff. Can't I just go over to my sister in laws for dinner? It'd be the same effect...

It's me. I killed Bitcoin. I got my taxes back a few weeks ago and went "what the hell, the country's going to hell anyway, maybe having $50 in non us currency can't hurt..." My horrible luck with investments continues to be a streak of straight bangers, cause 0 days of positive return

Signal boosting my board scan wiki: wiki.nataliethenerd.com This is just a nice visual site featuring the content from the repo, I know some people aren't comfortable navigating github.

I am not really a dev. I do trend analysis. But here I am learning Go cause my boss keeps piling shit on our two man internal tool dev team so if we want tools I guess it's make em ourselves

This ti-99 I do not need keeps dropping in price on eBay and at this point the shipping is more expensive than it. Do I really need another?

Hey internet, I'm looking for pictures of the internals of this monitor: Apple Performa Plus Display (C369179741) Specifically the flip foot version that looks like the one here. applerescueofdenver.com/products-pag...

"Every day, America Online is making it easier to live, work, and play..."

More disturbing than child pregnancy is seeing someone make the weird evil kid from Psychonauts as a sim.

My city does a public carpool sort of thing, like a shared Lyft, cause it's a really cheap way for mid size cities to do public transit. I have two youngish punk types as the driver and the trainee... Why are we bumping Conway Twitty and bette midler?

I have a new printer. Something seemed really familiar about it. I've finally figured out what it is and have labelled it appropriately. It is now a Super Printendo. 😂

Manager: "What's this milestone 'Living on a prayer' ?" Me: "That's the documentation deliverable." Manager: "What's the status of that?" Me: "We're halfway there" Manager: "Why is progress so slow?" Me: "You fired Tommy" Manager: "So?" Me: "Tommy used to work on the docs"

I love my partner, but there is nothing more painful than watching someone consistently make the worst decisions one can make in a video game possible. And he hates me backseat driving so I'm stuck sitting here biting my tongue as he runs off walls time after time

Oh no. Balatro is on game pass

Yet another example of people putting things directly on the Internet which should never be. And worse yet, not even changing the default admin login credentials. www.ericdaigle.ca/posts/breaki...

Whenever we make popcorn rather than tossing what's left in the trash, we've been tossing it on the porch and now I feel like a Disney princess whenever I look outside.

Johnny Knoxville vs Ben Stein on celebrity deatmatch is quite possibly the most 90s thing on earth

"nipples are positive" Me, explaining how to tell which end of the battery is which when unmarked

One of my favorite bands from my current town is reuniting for the 20th anniversary of their breakthrough album and I am trying so hard to drag my partner to go see them. He's sitting here doing a wonderful example of them with having never heard them just knowing it's an emo band...

I remember these things being godlike. Then I worked for a Telco after the onset of everything being voip

Discovered. Russian YouTuber with this super smart raven that does the best play dead youtube.com/shorts/4zdQe...

i don't know who needs to hear this but please remember it's not a toyotasprint it's a toyotathon

A movie you've watched more than 6 times, using only GIFs

Saturday is @romchip.bsky.social's fundraiser stream, and I'm bringing out the big stupid. I'll be playing with the WONDER TOOLS CRUISER, a Fisher-Price controller for Windows 95 that, as far as I can tell, there is zero current video of anyone playing. You will not want to miss this

That sure was a graphic design decision. I mean, it was the style of the time, but boy...

Where is John Le Carre to write the novel about the American president being a Russian spy when you need him?

On the ride in to work this morning attempting to explain my job (trend analysis for an MSP) to someone who doesn't know how to connect their phone to wifi is an actually really fun exercise. I highly recommend tech people do it on the regular.

Gonna go back to this which is guaranteed to not have AI in it

One of the first picutres to use now-routine techniques like surface shaders, the 'Road to Point Reyes' (1983) took a team of Lucasfilms engineers an entire month to render.

Ah, the 70s. When those glasses could actually get you women rather than scare them off

If you wondered where the 80 column standard came from on old computers, it was from the humble punch card. They typically stored 80 bytes per card.

Fuck Amazon. Support your local libraries.