More than 35 years ago, well before the Internet, BBSes ruled.
One I was a pillar of was nothing but a wall where you would post anonymously (or not).
The software was written to verify the typing rate to make sure that no text was uploaded
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!
I wrote a special terminal program that would randomize the time between characters to foil that BBS's rejection of uploads...
(Oh, it worked, and the dude running the show never found out).
They never did, only select Model Ms had them. You can see a list of all Model Fs at https://sharktastica.co.uk/wik....
Don't you mean the memory manufacturers who have been found to be colluding and pleaded guilty?
Any of you old timers into retro computing? I like watching people restore them but honestly I don't have any desire using the OSes or applications, including NeXT stuff, which I still have a couple of slabs and a cube with NeXTdimension.
It's much more interesting seeing how people investigate faults and fix them because I have no hardware knowledge. I disengage after people fix the boards then try to get them to work dealing with IRQ configuration and driver selection. Back then I used a Macintosh to avoid all that. Today I use Windows and Linux. Though my daughter likes Apple's walled garden.
Look what's happening to Facebook when they went all in on "AI."
Back in the "old days" computing power was mainly available on mainframes and miniframes. Applications were built where displays were just forms rendered off terminals. The terminals had some smarts and after each form was filled in the Enter (Submit, etc.) key was pressed so the values were sent to the "real" computer so either the next forms could be rendered or the output could be calculated/printed. This form was rendered in what was typically called block mode. There is no communication with the computer until the Enter key was pressed. Pressing Return would just bring the cursor to the beginning of the line where the cursor was. After the application exits, the terminal was brought back to interactive mode where OS commands could be used completed using the Return key. I guess for these classes of computers, compute was really scarce and the use of block mode allowed people to use the computer with minimal sluggishness.
The WWW did the same thing when the first sites used Submit buttons.
When I first worked on an HP3000 I was asked to do some stuff in an application on an HP 2645A terminal. I was told what to do and I just kinda assumed "then press the Enter key" meant pressing the Return key. After a while later I went for help and I was told I pressed the wrong key.
The HP3000 with terminals weren't anything like my Apple II. The default editor was a line editor like UNIX's ed. There was a 3rd-party editor that kinda worked like vi but still clunky compared to my Apple II/UNIX vi because it made use of block mode.
Microsoft being Microslop. If their Azure platform is run like what this post claims, considering MS makes more revenue from their cloud offerings, it's no surprise their OS is maintained like shit.
I, Steve Wozniak, did not participate in the theft of the BASIC. It was funny to me to see others enjoying doing this. I had never used BASIC myself, at that time, only the more-scientific languages like Fortran, Algol, and PL-1, and several assembly languages. I sniffed the air and sensed that you needed BASIC to sell computers into homes, because of the book 101 Games in BASIC. I loved games and saw games as the key. It was the [MS] BASIC that inspired me to write a BASIC interpreter for my 6502 processor, in order to have a more useful computer.
It's hard to find people with Tim Berners-Lee's integrity. We should 'own' our own lives. It's a lot deeper than just being watched.
This CVE is discussed in detail by this YTer. He's a Rust proponent but very open about its limitations.
Is a computer language with goto's totally Wirth-less?
