ryan@themainframe cat ~/intro.txt
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ryan@themainframe ls -lh
total 25K Words
-rw-r--r-- 1 ryan ryan 2.6K Feb 2 2021 software.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 ryan ryan 1.7K Feb 2 2021 about.html
ryan@themainframe cat reason.txt
This site is a celebration of old computers and technology (or, what is old and nostalgic to me). Everything here is designed to look like a Linux desktop from between the years 2008-2012. That was the last time you could still feel 90's era optimism about technology (or the future in general), and the first time I used Linux (my father started me on Ubuntu 08.04 when I was 10).
In current year it's impossible to feel anything but disgust and disappointment over the state of technology. Social media has enabled conformism in a way never before thought possible. Every electronic device is a government surveillance machine. Unix is still using X11. Perhaps the Vi guy was right to go full AnPrim.
But this site at www.ryanmj.xyz is not about that. Instead, this is a place to LARP and pretend it's still 2008. It is a place where we can live in a world before Jack Dorsey literally ruined everything.
