Probablynothelping
rstevens 🐳💨✅this is the world they took from us
honk if you want to honk 
@rstevens i hope they keep it
@daswarkeinhuhn we are now in a fight
@rstevens yeah, I've already seen through that
Jeff Zugale - Z Factory@rstevens losing SCSI was worth it
Graham Stark
@Graham_LRR @alexcox me too, as well as a floppy drive
@Graham_LRR @alexcox i think i have the zip 250 version
Kaspar (allegedly not haunted)@rstevens oh, I very much know this one.
Jonathan Dechko@rstevens So much blue plastic.
genehack@rstevens there’s one of those in my basement.
Richard Troupe@rstevens It's almost like a transparent Apple Pippin.
Yoan@rstevens I had the TouchScan. It was shipped with 5 or 6 different handles so that you could change the color of your scanner every week. That actually gave a nice feeling of change.
Darryl Ramm@rstevens I wants it my precious...
oscarfalcon@rstevens Hey I still use mine, it's fantastic!
Þór Sigurðsson@rstevens I still have an HP ScanJet G3010 and it still works using the Windows 8 drivers on Windows 11. You can pry it out of my cold dead hands.
Author@rstevens Remember putting black pages behind manga pages.
richardbonomo@rstevens I had that exact scanner!
Christian Kent 𝘊𝘒 :＼﹥@rstevens I really (stupidly) thought, at a computer expo in February 2000, that all this good stuff was permanent
@whophd we got soft and made it too easy for people to use the internet
@rstevens Remember when "I do computers" didn't mean internet?
Also — I've lately thought a lot about the moment, in 1994, when I first saw someone send an email and receive a reply instantly. I was still living in the FidoNet bubble — pack your mail into big packets, send it (ZModem) once a day maybe, and pick up another bunch. Like real mail.
I did spend way too long reading & replying to messages (like now), but it really was limited to 1 or 2 hours a day. And then it was done. Inbox zero.
@whophd we failed when computers ceased to be constrained to the computer room