In DOS time I learned how to type quickle because I had to type in cd games cd keen keen as quickly as possible to minimise non-gaming time.
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NikolaTeslasPigeon@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoI grew up starting my computer use having to navigate DOS just before windows 3.11 was released. I work in tech today and I feel like just knowing about a lot of the automated things we take for granted today has given me a little bit of an edge.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 weeks ago
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s why you install Automenu
HubertManne@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I feel the same about things like irq. Useless but I feel knowing how they worked makes you closer to the hardware.
griff@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
I had to walk to school in the snow ten miles, both ways uphill!
expatriado@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
at least you had shoes
phonics@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You guys have feet?!
NikolaTeslasPigeon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Lt Dan?
lars@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
No. So I had to pull myself up the hills in a wagon and roll my own datetime parser
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
you dont levitate, or teleport.
PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I used to have to book computer time at the library and walk to said library so I could play Oregon trail on an apple iie