They beeped they booped they clinked they clonked. It felt like real serious machinery doing serious things that modern computing doesn't really elicit in me.

Those old defrag softwares that would show sectors being reallocated I used to love watching as a kid. My dad would explain to me how it worked under the hood while I watched.

Brain terminally stuck in the era of winamp

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[–] Saeculum@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

New computing has entered the territory where how it all physically works is genuinely difficult to understand, and the parts are mostly just silent and impenetrable chunks of silicon and wires performing what is basically magic.