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@occult@vox.ominous.net  ·  activity timestamp last week

When someone asks me what the #Fediverse, #Mastodon or #ActivityPub is I'll use this illustration from UNIX Review, April 1985.

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Illustration showing multiple beige desktop computers floating among clouds in an open sky, connected to each other by thin golden lines forming a network, with one large computer in the foreground emitting a burst of colorful rainbow light rays from its screen.
Illustration showing multiple beige desktop computers floating among clouds in an open sky, connected to each other by thin golden lines forming a network, with one large computer in the foreground emitting a burst of colorful rainbow light rays from its screen.
Illustration showing multiple beige desktop computers floating among clouds in an open sky, connected to each other by thin golden lines forming a network, with one large computer in the foreground emitting a burst of colorful rainbow light rays from its screen.
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@occult@vox.ominous.net replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

OBEY.

BYTE Magazine, October 1983.

Retro-futuristic painting depicting an endless field of beige 1980s desktop computers and CRT monitors stretching to the horizon, with a glowing translucent sphere rising from their center like a sun. Looming above in a starry sky is a massive mainframe computer, suggesting the monolithic power of centralized computing presiding over the proliferating personal computer age.
Retro-futuristic painting depicting an endless field of beige 1980s desktop computers and CRT monitors stretching to the horizon, with a glowing translucent sphere rising from their center like a sun. Looming above in a starry sky is a massive mainframe computer, suggesting the monolithic power of centralized computing presiding over the proliferating personal computer age.
Retro-futuristic painting depicting an endless field of beige 1980s desktop computers and CRT monitors stretching to the horizon, with a glowing translucent sphere rising from their center like a sun. Looming above in a starry sky is a massive mainframe computer, suggesting the monolithic power of centralized computing presiding over the proliferating personal computer age.
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@occult@vox.ominous.net replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

From the same issue, this illustration could be used in an article tomorrow about #LLM overreliance.

An anthropomorphized teal desktop computer standing on a barren, rocky landscape, arms raised and palms open in exasperation, with a bewildered human face displayed on its CRT screen. A speech bubble above reads "What more can I do?”
An anthropomorphized teal desktop computer standing on a barren, rocky landscape, arms raised and palms open in exasperation, with a bewildered human face displayed on its CRT screen. A speech bubble above reads "What more can I do?”
An anthropomorphized teal desktop computer standing on a barren, rocky landscape, arms raised and palms open in exasperation, with a bewildered human face displayed on its CRT screen. A speech bubble above reads "What more can I do?”
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