Another Angry WomanNov 29, 2022

"waah waaah mastodon is slow and glitchy sometimes, how can you bear it"

bitch I grew up with dial up. I scrolled endlessly through the hampster dance, half the jpegs broken. I spent an hour looking for and downloading a simple mp3. I waited my 54 minutes to continue watching a ropey stream of true blood with unsynced audio. I still use tumblr. you are like tiny baby

Show threadAnthonyUplandpoetWatkinsNov 29, 2022
@stavvers
Yeah, programming with punch cards was a bear…:) >old guy here
Show threadLeon BambrickNov 30, 2022
@AnthonyUplandpoetWatkins @stavvers oh luxury what I wouldn’t have given to put my code on decks of punch cards. When I was a youngun we wrote our laws on stone tablets, straight from Yahweh Himself!
Show threadShoe_flyNov 30, 2022
@secretgeek @AnthonyUplandpoetWatkins @stavvers lol thank you, stop me from rolling out the punch card and sequential batch processing on *tape* stories
Show threadLeon Bambrick
@shoeflyin @AnthonyUplandpoetWatkins @stavvers just want to say you’re still welcome to share stories from ages of yore. I’m a keen historian and think recording such stories is a crucial part of the cultural historiography etc.
Nov 30, 2022 at 3:14pmWeb
Show threadShoe_flyNov 30, 2022
@secretgeek @AnthonyUplandpoetWatkins @stavvers 😎yeah it's fun to read about but four yorkshiremen is an apt comparison, get all the old computer geeks trotting out their war stories about how they wrote code with only 64 bits of memory to work with or whatever
Show threadAnthonyUplandpoetWatkinsNov 30, 2022

@shoeflyin @secretgeek @stavvers

Punch cards, punchcard. No biTd:)

Show threadAnthonyUplandpoetWatkinsNov 30, 2022

@secretgeek @shoeflyin @stavvers

Most of my ancient history is recorded in my poetry

Show threadShoe_flyNov 30, 2022
@secretgeek @AnthonyUplandpoetWatkins @stavvers Oh, and this is a *very* Mastodon reply...made a joke but then made sure no one felt shut down by it 😎