This page was originally posted on July 31st, 2013. Neil’s game was, I think, very different in 2013 than it is in 2023.
For instance, one of the things that’s common whenever I look at this page is that I have a computer in front of me. The sleek i7 laptop I’m looking at it on now is several orders of magnitude more powerful than the Pentium 133MMX laptop I had in 2003, but that’s not visible to the eye. It’s got a wider screen and a thinner body, but not really all that different. The look of the Web browser has changed a little, but I’m even running the same Linux distro with the same window manager theme.
The laptop I had in 2013 was bigger and bulkier than either my current one or the one I had in 2003, mainly because it had a larger screen (though lower-resolution than my current one) and full-sized keyboard. But same Linux distro, same window manager theme. Same Web browser. The real differences were inside, where they weren’t visible.
But in 1993? I was using a 286 desktop machine with an EGA CRT, running DOS. I had Windows 3.1 installed, but rarely used it. The Web existed, kind of, but nothing like it is today, or even in 2003, and I’d never even seen a Web browser at that point. I didn’t have direct Internet access, though I could get on BITNET through the college system’s VAX. Completely different world.
This page was originally posted on July 31st, 2013. Neil’s game was, I think, very different in 2013 than it is in 2023.
For instance, one of the things that’s common whenever I look at this page is that I have a computer in front of me. The sleek i7 laptop I’m looking at it on now is several orders of magnitude more powerful than the Pentium 133MMX laptop I had in 2003, but that’s not visible to the eye. It’s got a wider screen and a thinner body, but not really all that different. The look of the Web browser has changed a little, but I’m even running the same Linux distro with the same window manager theme.
The laptop I had in 2013 was bigger and bulkier than either my current one or the one I had in 2003, mainly because it had a larger screen (though lower-resolution than my current one) and full-sized keyboard. But same Linux distro, same window manager theme. Same Web browser. The real differences were inside, where they weren’t visible.
But in 1993? I was using a 286 desktop machine with an EGA CRT, running DOS. I had Windows 3.1 installed, but rarely used it. The Web existed, kind of, but nothing like it is today, or even in 2003, and I’d never even seen a Web browser at that point. I didn’t have direct Internet access, though I could get on BITNET through the college system’s VAX. Completely different world.