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01100011yesterday at 5:40 PM1 replyview on HN

I'm getting older and forgetting a lot, but I hope I never forget the feeling of seeing this as a kid in 1989.

You can see and experience old things, but it's impossible to recreate the context in which they were originally experienced. You can't erase your experience of 40 years of technical progress which makes this sort of thing feel merely quaint in comparison.


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btbuildemyesterday at 7:05 PM

Those memories are crisp and vivid