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From the Kernel:
Reviving an old computer is like restoring a classic car: There’s a thrill from bringing the ancient into the modern world. So it was with my first “real” computer, my Mac Plus, when I decided to bring it forward three decades and introduce it to the modern Web.
Yes, in a certain sense, my Mac has already been on the Internet, first via BBSes and later via Lynx through a dial-up shell sessions. (There’s nothing quite like erotic literature at 2400 bps when you’re 13 years old.) What it never did was run a TCP/IP stack of its own. It was always just a dumb terminal on the ’net, never a full-fledged member.
How hard could it be to right that wrong?
The original article was posted in late 2013, but this republishing qualifies it for timeliness, so that makes it okay.
(Score: 2) by arashi no garou on Monday March 23 2015, @08:22PM
I didn't make any absolute value judgement
"the result is not even esthetically pleasing" certainly seems like a value judgement to me.
As for the rest: If you had simply asked "why did he do this?" the answer is in his own blog post about it: Nostalgia and fun. But you didn't just ask "why", you asked "why did he do something I don't find aesthetically pleasing" and that's why you got the responses you did. Looking at the thread as a whole, I'm not the only person who was put off by your attitude. Does that make you a bad person? No, but you clearly have a sense of superiority and pomp, it's all over your writing style.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday March 23 2015, @10:17PM
Clear now?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0