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GenXtcy
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Old. Software and technology. Assorted bullshit.
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Coming soon to the Atari Video Computer System.
April 3, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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March 18, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Boycott the AVN Expo. Stand with the Culinary Union.
January 12, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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retrocomps.bsky.social
"Word 2003 had far too many toolbars." (Source.)
A screenshot of Word 2003. This screenshot has 27 toolbars, a menu (with only seven items) that you have to expand for some reason, very few text labels, tiny icons, and no obvious way to chord from one page to the next. Each toolbar is coded different, so they are of varying widths, some are floating, some are up top while some are down below, and one is a side pane for some reason. That's not to say anything about the dozens of controls hidden within the menu proper. The tiny text editing area, dwarfed by the dozens of toolbars with dozens of controls, reads: "It is getting a bit crowded in here!"
January 2, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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moodboard.bsky.social
#moodboard
December 27, 2024 at 7:51 PM
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retrocomps.bsky.social
Atari ST Christmas music medley (Greg Kopchak, 1987)
Xmas 1987 - [Atari ST] Christmas MIDI music demo from 1987
Stefan Lindberg (YouTube)
www.youtube.com
December 26, 2024 at 5:05 AM
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retrocomps.bsky.social
From blackboards to floppy discs: Another Boring Topic talks about Visicalc, the software that took literal spreadsheets and made them accessable to the average desktop.
The Story of VisiCalc
Another Boring Topic (YouTube)
www.youtube.com
December 21, 2024 at 12:05 AM
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retrocomps.bsky.social
Dengeki PC Engine magazine once had a super cute sheep as a mascot. That's it, that's the skeet. (Any transcription errors in the alt-text are mine, and I can't fit the whole cover anyways.) (Source.)
The cover of Dengeki PC Engine magazine. In this Valentines-themed cover, the mascot, a red-eyed sheep girl with a curly white cut, faces the user and shows off her valentine's chocolate; the chocolate is tied with a bow and the bow is sealed with a tiny mascot of her boar boyfriend. The title appears up top (with a lightning bolt as a diacritic). Top left, it reads "1993 February - 550 Yen - First Volume issue 2." Top right, it mentions "Hardware information of Turbo Duo-R - LD-ROM LaserActive - Vegas Winter CES News. Akihabara discount stores guide (With Map). Reader Participation RPG 2: Majuu Senzen Walzer's Emblem." Bottom left, it reads, "Nobunaga's Ambition: Warlord Chronicles - Zero4 Champ II - Angel's Poem - Aim For The Top! 2" Next, the headline article: "Special Appendix: Compendium of Secret Tricks / Complete coverage of games released in '92 - includes games released in '93 / Total 68 Pages!" "Special report on 2 software houses / Hudson & NEC."
December 15, 2024 at 2:05 AM
genxtcy.bsky.social
This is Microsoft’s oldest product. Older than Word. Older than Windows.
retrocomps.bsky.social Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social · Dec 7
"Once you've been aloft, you'll want to buckle up up behind your own IBM PC with the Microsoft Flight Simulator. It's the closest you can get to flying. Without leaving your nest." (Source.)
Up top, the slogan: "If flying your IBM® PC got any more realistic, you'd need a license." Upper half, dense ad copy with headings like "The plane inside your PC," "The world beneath your fingers," "The learning curve," "The Ace in your soul," and "Throttle on." At the end of the ad copy, the MICROSOFT "pixel earth" logo, with the slogan: "Better Tools For Microcomputers." Below, the viewer is put behind a tilted art-deco airplane control panel, looking towards a vaporwave horizon; the plane is lining up for Runway 18. The registration on the dash, N4081L, belonged to a real Piper PA-31 Navajo in the 80s, and the instrument panel is (with some artistic license) what it would look like if you were sitting in the copilot's seat.
December 7, 2024 at 4:01 PM
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vickiboykis.com
Good morning!
T-shirt with a cartoon sailor dog that says “total information collapse and the end of all consensus reality, the damage cannot be undone”
December 6, 2024 at 12:30 PM
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designingfilm.bsky.social
The Apple II Plus and the Apple III, 1981.
December 5, 2024 at 11:02 AM
genxtcy.bsky.social
CEOs getting assassinated is cyberpunk.
December 5, 2024 at 9:09 AM
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pauldoroshenko.com
Spoiler alert.
December 2, 2024 at 12:15 AM
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moodboard.bsky.social
#moodboard
December 2, 2024 at 8:35 PM
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redefine.luxury
Now that's a Black Friday deal if I've ever seen one.
Amazon Basics Home Crematorium product photo
November 30, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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spockresists.bsky.social
The Heart Nebula

telescope.live/gallery/hear...
November 30, 2024 at 6:33 AM
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karenab32.bsky.social
Good morning 😊
November 30, 2024 at 11:03 AM
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veggieto.bsky.social
To all my friends and followers, have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday.
November 28, 2024 at 12:32 PM
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culinaryanarchy.bsky.social
"Hey cuz, wanna walk up to the store with me, grandma says we need ice?"
November 28, 2024 at 12:28 AM
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jiminykirket.bsky.social
annoy an ML engineer with these simple phrases:

"cosine distance"
"L2 similarity"
"but did you ship it?"
November 26, 2024 at 10:38 PM
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retrotheory.bsky.social
Sometimes I think amber monitors were just a dream #retrocomputing
November 26, 2024 at 1:08 PM
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mrmotarius.bsky.social
Black hole with pseudo-C64 aesthetics.
November 26, 2024 at 9:35 AM
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selfcaregamer.bsky.social
the best self-care tip I can offer is to turn off your phone notifications for ALL social media platforms. you don't need them. you don't need to make yourself so available to things that might stress or overwhelm you
November 26, 2024 at 6:36 PM
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zachsilberberg.bsky.social
alternate timeline where instead of reading to children on 9/11, george bush was in the middle of filming hot ones
that famous image of george bush receiving the news about 9/11 but he's sitting at the hot ones table with some sauce on his mouth
November 25, 2024 at 2:11 AM
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karenguzzo.bsky.social
Rocking my new Tshirt!
November 24, 2024 at 10:16 PM