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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.

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[–] batsforpeace@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

yeah.. there's a seriousness to the experience that the modern design doesn't strive for or at least I'm not seeing it, we see indie games and tv series trying to capture that aesthetic for nostalgia as well

I only really started using a computer at home around the time of Win95/98 but I remember seeing DOS PCs with Norton Commander in school labs before that, I guess a computer at home wasn't really even required for most things in the early 90s

[–] batsforpeace@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

also, love the hum and beeps and boops of course

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

this is my version of people going "cars used to be more fun"

[–] Saeculum@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months 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.