Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The Good Ol' Days of Computing? Date: 31 Oct 2025 04:01:58 GMT Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <10detk2$2b3jr$1@dont-email.me> <10dhm2v$33b7e$1@dont-email.me> <10dkuvq$3uqs3$4@dont-email.me> <10dnvo8$sb29$1@dont-email.me> <10dq546$1r51o$1@dont-email.me> <20251029084329.0000034f@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net Je60j1sVp8D+V81rokMNJA2tB6k06QdF9YBLlKJiviAK/4dOMK Cancel-Lock: sha1:+BItDtJ1O9775IP+fn/zggVy1bw= sha256:bGUTx14elE5EECByIy01A5gUIgIHbB0XHfhIipllVco= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:76852 On 30 Oct 2025 20:21:26 GMT, rbowman wrote: > On Thu, 30 Oct 2025 11:29:50 -0400, c186282 wrote: > >> On 10/30/25 02:29, rbowman wrote: >>> On Thu, 30 Oct 2025 00:49:41 -0400, c186282 wrote: >>> >>>> Hey, it had it's place - an important place. However >>>> tastes/interests vary. >>>> >>>> "Industrial"/embedded is very interesting, and useful, >>>> unto itself. >>>> >>>> I'm just wondering what 'modern computing' would look like >>>> without the cheap 'home pc' push. >>> >>> Chromebooks... IBMs vision has always been thin clients with >>> everything running on big iron. MS is going that way too. Works like >>> a champ unless somebody screws up AWS's DNS. >> >> AND you have a really high speed connection ... > > AOL on dialup. Enuf said. Replying to my own post with a bit of synchnicity.. theregister.com/2025/10/30/yahoo_sells_aol_to_bending/ I don't know which surprised me more, that AOL was still around or that anyone would buy it. The last paragraph is the howler: "AOL recently switched off the last bits of its dial-up network. The number of customers affected by the termination was said to be in the low thousands."