The pages of this magazine have often orbited around the subject of retrocomputing. Take, for example, the editions about sustainability, computer museums, hardware, hobbies, gaming, operating systems, or the one about BASIC published last summer. If you pay attention, you most probably have realized how much retrocomputing has grown in popularity in the past few decades, with more and more people learning on YouTube or TikTok how to replace the batteries or leaking capacitors from the motherboards of all kinds of computers of yesteryear.
  • LvxferreEnglish
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    6 months ago

    The article mentions what the author sees as two trends behind retrocomputing (reusing the old and escaping the modern world), but I’d argue that the second one should be further split, since there are two modernities that people are running away from:

    • unnecessary complexity. Since the old stuff performs the same role as the new one, minus unnecessary delays or elements introducing cognitive load, might as well use the old stuff.
    • lack of control. I’m not talking about an AI takeover or shit like this. Simpler stuff: big tech has become considerably better, over time, in bossing you around so you do its bidding, even against your best interests.