He became the Emacs guy.
this is really high definition for the 80s
"What happens in the 80s, stays in the 80s. Except for Perl."
"I use single letter variable names, it's called efficiency. I don't need comments. I have a degree in creative memory management." A few seconds later: "What is this variable for?" This will never not be funny.
Maybe he is an immortal programmer. I mean these setups and the knowledge of all the languages.
I was a junior programmer in '83, aged 16, working on the first generation IBM PC's and XT's. I practically lost my mind when I had a 10mb HDD installed on my work computer - I was a GOD! Fuck me, how things have changed and this reminds me so much of those times. The satire in this is truly excellent. I go through and binge watch quite a few vids on this channel from time to time, as the it so it's both accurate and highly amusing. The crew behind this channel are seriously switched on and I can't praise them enough! Absolutely love it - many thanks from the 57 year old ex-techie!
"I hear from the pitch if it loads successfully" that takes me back <3 But then he says's not rich but has a dedicated monitor for his computer.
"Printers that don't jam" fking golden
That room is soo spot on. Also, who remembers to de-Gauss the CRT, too?
I am obsessed with this channel's sense of humour It's a dying breed
What a potpourri of pain and nostalgia... It's like being reminded of a bunch of paper cuts you had forgotten about.
“I never turn off my GeOS, it’ll probably never start again” Sooooooo true.
The Fort Apocalypse title screen punched me in the face and rocket launched me to much better times in another era, in another universe. A lost universe.
"My 12 years old neighbor writes a better Basic interpreter than that" Brilliant reference to Simon's Basic :)
"Let me debug it..." Proceeds to shake it violently. Perfection
The fact that he's a jaded C64 user who unironically takes the piss out of everybody, Commodore included, is peak 80s computer culture.
You guys are just brilliant. I don’t even know how you can jump between these subjects and nail the zeitgeist so perfectly EVERY TIME!
"...currently reading a Science fiction Book called 'A printer that doesn't jam' " still applies to this decade
No StackOverflow, no ChatGPT... "when men were men and wrote their own device drivers" - Linus Torvalds
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