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1. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Apr-2018 01:58:10 EDT Nate Cull

   My brother @pdcull has been going through his papers and we found that 1982 was the year he first started studying computing.

   1982 was a good year.

   I was ten. I met the Commodore PET (CBM, to be precise) and the PDP 11/10 with MUBAS (Multiuser Basic) that year.

   The world of pixels and bits was magical to me, and in a way still is. The ultimate Lego set.

   Its just what we've built on top of it - and especially the trillion-dollar culture of greed and psychological abuse - that makes me sad.

   1. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Apr-2018 02:02:28 EDT Nate Cull

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      In my pre-teens I used to dream about escaping into a world of pure software. Because we could 'do everything over, and do it right'. Make a world without pain, fear, death. This was without even reading any of the cyberpunk writers.

      But now I know that we wouldn't do it right. Because we had the chance, and we didn't.

      What we put into computers is what's in our heads and our hearts, and those contain... things we need to work on.