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What we can learn from vintage computing
The “old ways” are actually a prime opportunity to learn, escape today’s exhausting digital environments, and get inspired
These days, Aldridge uses an iPad as his primary digital organizer, but he still participates in the community as the maintainer of the NewtonScript resource website and the United Network of Newton Archives. “When any sizable online service disappears, a piece of our civilization’s cultural fabric goes with it,” journalist and computer historian Benj Edwards wrote in a 2014 article in The Atlantic about efforts to restore lost Prodigy content. Kaiser points to all the challenges of digital life—from cluttered interfaces to the overwhelming crush of information—as reasons that some people are turning to Gopher and other older internet platforms.
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