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The Last People Who Know How It Works · unix.foo

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You only ever know the things you can lose to.

To play a computer game in in the 1990s, you first had to understand how the computer worked. So you learned. You opened files like autoexec.bat and you read them. Sometimes you built a boot disk for a single game. A floppy whose entire reason to exist was to start the computer in the configuration that one program demanded. A ten year old did this. I did this. You did it because you wanted to play badly enough, and the machine would not let you play until you had learned a little of how it worked. That was the arrangement. The machine had terms! Everything had terms then. The modem sang its n

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