Sunday, January 17, 2021

How We Worked Before the Internet, and What We Can Learn From It

Originally posted January 17, 2021 

Back in the ’80s, when we cooked popcorn and reheated coffee on the stove, and when “let’s go to the videotape!” actually involved videotape, we already had both private and public networks. We had external media, long- and short-term storage, and even L1 caches. It was glorious.