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1 <p>This site is a celebration of old computers and technology (or, what is old and 2 nostalgic to me). Everything here is designed to look like a late 2000's 3 or early 2010's Linux desktop since that was the last time you could still feel 4 90's era optimism about technology (or the future in general). 5 <br> 6 </p> 7 8 <p> 9 In current year it's impossible to feel anything but disgust and disappointment 10 over the state of technology. Social media has enabled conformism in a way 11 never before thought possible. Every electronic device is a government surveillance 12 machine. Unix is <span class="underline">still</span> using X11. Perhaps 13 the Vi guy was right <a href="https://www.wired.com/2000/04/joy-2/">to go full AnPrim</a>. 14 </p> 15 16 <p> 17 But this site at www.ryanmj.xyz <span class="underline">is not</span> about that. 18 Instead, this is a place to LARP and pretend it's still 2008. 19 </p> 20 21 <p> 22 <a href="https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2286765W/Atomised?edition=atomised00houe">This website is dedicated to mankind.</a> 23 </p>