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this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2025
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you know the computer thing is it plugged in?
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The nerdy boomers built computers as we know them.
As we knew them, not as we know them.
You know what I mean.
But you don't know what I mean. Computers as most people know them now are tablets and cell phones. I blame X and the elder millennials for that.
Computers filled rooms back when the boomers (and earlier gens) were creating them, so even a desktop isn't how they were known then. But it laid the groundwork.
Well, at a low level they are still basically the same. x86 still starts in 16-bit real mode. Mice still use USB 1 from the 90s.
Mostly it's just a lot faster and covered with more layers of abstraction.