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2. Michael 11 hr later

   3d printing has gone too far

   1. Build Awesome (11ty) 11 hr later

      you wouldn’t 3d print a car

3. ppk 🇪🇺 11 hr later

   I well remember receiving the latest version of jQuery plus plugins on 173 floppy disks delivered by mail.

   Ah, those were the days...

   1. Build Awesome (11ty) 11 hr later

      people talk about a stationwagon full of hard drives — try a covered wagon full of punch cards

      1. Michael 11 hr later

         "Nobody will ever need more memory than a covered wagon full of punch cards" --Bill Gates Probably

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4. Juri 11 hr later

   and ppl complain about what we have today. Imagine the cost of “a quick bugfix patch”

   1. Build Awesome (11ty) 11 hr later

      the cost of software updates has gone down — I wonder if that has affected the quality of software 😅

      1. Luke 11 hr later

         Testing

5. David Moll 11 hr later

   I wonder if IPoAC was ever considered en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over...

   1. Build Awesome (11ty) 11 hr later

      we experimented with IPoPC (possum carriers) for awhile

      1. Michael 11 hr later

         ACK

         1. Build Awesome (11ty) 11 hr later

            SYN

6. Zach Leatherman 11 hr later

   (inspired by @chappelltracker.bsky.social! bsky.app/profile/chap...)

7. Matthias Ott 11 hr later

   Not many people know this but this is also how @font-face used to work originally and that’s why we write font-display: swap to this day!

   1. Build Awesome (11ty) 11 hr later

      you used the 7 system-safe fonts and you loved it

   2. Jason Pamental 12 hr later

      The really cool kids would swap a whole line at a time 😆

      1. Matthias Ott 12 hr later

         🧐 Is that an … invariable font, Jason?

         1. Jason Pamental 12 hr later

            Earlier release of the technology: ‘melt-and-replace’ 🤣

         2. Zach Leatherman 12 hr later

            ahaha this exchange is iframeable

            1. Jason Pamental 12 hr later

               If you did them individually you’d have a nice <frameset>

               1. Matthias Ott 13 hr later

                  And if you slowly pushed them across the table, you‘d get what the really cool kids used to call <marquee> 😅

                  1. Jason Pamental 13 hr later

                     <blink>

                     I hadn’t thought about that.

8. gio 🇵🇷 11 hr later

   nice save icon

9. Rasmus Fløe 12 hr later

   May or may not have pirated it...

   1. Build Awesome (11ty) 12 hr later

      get out the pencil we need to rewind it a bit

10. Justin Hunter 12 hr later

    Bring back the 5 1/4" floppy

11. Pier 14 hr later

    you joke but 20+ years ago we used to buy magazines with CDs that included software

    actual paper magazines

    1. Build Awesome (11ty) 19 hr later

       WHO IS JOKING

       1. mortendk 1 day later

          It was aaaamaaaaazing

          Getting all kinds of awesome software done by small Indy developers

          😍

12. Salt Lake Techie 22 hr later

    Ah yes, back when you had to order JSON from a catalog