Yes and no.
Computers and computer systems weren’t so much enshittified back in those days.
But the bulk CRT screens, I don’t miss those…
By the way, at those times almost every screen had one of those stupid placebo ‘glare filters’ . I don’t miss those either.
Oddly, I want the CRT’s, but those optiplexes are horrible.
I just want one crt per system for retro gaming.
Computers were still exciting. And hadn’t been enshitified.
Yes, computers were fun and exciting. Now they just suck.
Unless Linux. But even then it takes an effort to disable all the bloat and spyware bs in the bios.
what do you mean by bloat and spyware on linux? (asking because it’s the first time i hear this take)
In the bios: it’s the booting software that’s separate from the OS. Most newer computers have ridiculously long menu’s and you have to be careful what you disable because of bit locker nonsense and whatnot.
Computer class in high school back then for me was treating them as glorified typewriters. I fooled around with some VBScript as that’s all we had available (I was very fortunate my grade school teacher taught us LOGO) and I managed to script kiddy my way into admin access for the internet filter for my friends so we could play stuff on Newgrounds. My career advisor told me to get a science degree because there was no future in computers, haha.
Computer lab day!
Yeah but not because of the computers.
I see your nostalgia and raise you this:
I see your nostalgia and raise you this: this
I actually had to learn to use a slide rule in high school, in the late 1970s.
thhhick
I remember essentially turning a BASIC prompt into a spinning, geometric rave decoration back in 5th grade, and thinking it was the coolest shit ever, but really… it was all about Math Blaster and The Oregon Trail in the years up to that point, and for several years later.
And yes, I’d go back in a heartbeat.
Despite having a very nostalgic soft spot for my 16-bit and 8-bit home computers, these labs do nothing for me. I worked in so many as an technician at a uni and in various other tech support roles in my 20s that these generic cream boxes leave me kinda cold. Give me an Amiga, an ST or even a ZX Spectrum any day. Probably cos I’m old AF 🤣
I used to love lifting my feet, putting one hand on the monitor screen, turning it off, and shocking the hell out of whoever was sitting beside me.
Don’t they still use computers in schools?
What? Computers are all in schools, and libraries are still a thing too. This is about the old times.
I don’t understand the picture not being a shared experience.
I learnt to type on a piece of paper that had a picture of a keyboard on it.
You must be young and never experienced floppy drives.
If I was I wouldn’t be asking if kids don’t go through this now.
Simpler times? Hell no they don’t.
Throwback to hand writing assignments then everyone is lined up to the only computer in the school to type it out.
In sixth grade we could rent the laptop brick for the weekend; it’s where I played Police Quest 1.
In the early 90s I went to computer camp at Aldersgate in Rhode Island and we had a whole room in the retreat center for the TRS-80 Model 4’s.
In university in 2000, nothing beat the networked computers with the cables running the ceiling in the metal trays.
Windows 95 in high school was peak though.
Ah, the good old automatic information processing class lol.
I only miss running down the row and pressing the degauss button on every monitor.
I was more in team starfield and pipes and later flying toasters.
