Gird yourselves! It’s my blog and I will use it as the platform from which I can shake my fist at the younger generation of developers and computer enthusiasts if I want to!
I’ve always loved older technology. Making a thing that everyone else says is obsolete do something it shouldn’t be able to do, or at least we were told it can’t do, is one of life’s great joys. Having worked in tech for the last three decades, I have swayed in and out of the hobby aspect of computing, from learning to code in BASIC on our first computer, a VIC-20, to pretty much ignoring them until the C64 was no longer new and I could afford one. Then right back out for a while and only back when the siren song of PCs showed me the way towards my degree of choice.
I hadn’t touched much in the way of “old tech” until about a year ago when I picked up a Thinkpad T420, which is admittedly “old” but not exactly “OOOooold”. That said, it was the machine that showed me that all of the nonsense that the tech influencers and their channels are spouting was just that – nonsense. Upgrading for the sake of saying you did. Having power you probably never actually use. And here I was with a $50 laptop from 2011 that was serving every need.
After that resoundin success (to be documented here for posteriry), I didn’t tkae a victory lap, I doubled down.
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