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ratatouille as a serviceI feel like mastodon would appreciate this unopened 1998 three tape documentary about the pre bubble internet i found at my parent’s house
Naturally someone already uploaded the whole thing to archive.org https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22Nerds+2.0.1+-+A+Brief+History+of+the+Internet%22
Towards the start of this a woman says that every year spent on the web ages you by seven years, so even though she’s 35, because her last year was a Web Year, she feels like she’s actually 42. This explains why everyone in the year 2025 is insane
ranjit
Glowing Cat of the Nuclear Wastelands@hannah By that math, I'm over two centuries old. That sure explains a few things.
no-no@hannah this does NOT bode well for me
Ormur@wolfteeth @hannah 37 going on 187
FallsMom 🌻42 is the answer.
Clive Thompsonyeah that really has surprisingly concise explanatory power
Lyskar@hannah I'm over 100 years by that metric then. Hahahahahahahaha
the illustrious IRIS JAY
Stlex 
@hannah oh man that must be a real wild watch now
words of encouragement@hannah "Bob Cringely" feels incredibly on the nose
@carithlee he’s still around! https://www.cringely.com (it’s a pseudonym)
scott f@hannah @carithlee wait, how did you get this to work just one hour ago (since it generated a link preview) and now the site is broken?! It says the WP Engine site is not configured for me!
@scott @carithlee an old school slashdotting
varx/tech
Alex Feinman
Daniel M. Reck"...attractive AND easy to use!"
Yikes. That... is cringely.
@carithlee @hannah
@hannah they had this as part of a little display at the RE-PC in Tukwila! i was so curious!
The Abominable Dr. Vibes
"Stone Cold" Yours Truly@hannah I downloaded this doc like a million years ago when Demonoid was around.
This is the first time seeing the physical packaging. Good stuff
Blake C. Stacey@hannah "Oh yeah, well if nerds are so great, why didn't they make nerds 2?"
(Later)
We regret the need for a bugfix release of Nerds 2.0....
Sydney / Prophet 🏳️⚧️🏴@hannah Strange of them to say that the guy is called Bob Cringely when it's clearly just Linus Torvalds lmfaoooo
Knut 🏳️🌈 🇳🇴🧸@hannah well that quote from Ellison hasn't aged well, has it?
Weltzeitgeist
Andrew 
obsidian@hannah from the cringely box art i was 100% sure this was some sort of obviousplant hoax, until i'd watched a few minutes in
wow
Inga stands with 🇺🇦 🇵🇸@hannah
> Bob Cringely
Ah so that's where the modern meaning of "cringe" came from
Ian Scott@hannah oh heck yes.
madopalNetscape, AOL, Microsoft, Apple, 3Com
"One of these things is not like the other...now can you tell which one..."
jordan
vilmibm
Chip@hannah Bob Cringely… now there’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.
xmanmonk@hannah That is nothing short of awesome.
Magnus Runesson@hannah These are so good. I must look again.
nobletrout@hannah @GossiTheDog version one had an awesome naked hot tub scene with woz.
Goopadrew@hannah the gold Casio fits the vibe perfectly!
Max "Buzzworthy" Eddy@hannah I vividly remember watching this. I loved Triumph of the Nerds so much I somehow found a transcription of the episodes and printed them all out.
Jinx@hannah is this that same doc that has the crazy ping of death animation sequence in it?
wyatt@hannah We're still stuck on "serving the suits" ;_;
(corporate suits anyway)
(corporate suits anyway)
Danielle Crawford@hannah i had happily forgotten about Bob Cringely, until now
Duncan@hannah i'd love it if those tapes screamed at you in pre-internetese
Mandy Mac@hannah
Oh how I wish you cpuld open that and reset time...
Oh how I wish you cpuld open that and reset time...
:: Asta ::@hannah huuuuuh; why does Bob Cringely look like James Franco's dad or brother or something?