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1. Private reply Bluesky 8 min later
2. Nathan Knowler Mastodon 1 hr later

   @11ty Maybe we need a PICO-8 kinda thing for non-game software: make it fit on a floppy.

3. Eric McCormick Mastodon 1 hr later

   @11ty oh hey look, it’s the save icon. 👀

4. Private reply Mastodon 2 hr later
   1. Private reply Mastodon 11 hr later
5. Simon Cox Mastodon 5 hr later

   @11ty

   Hmmm.

   I’m sure I got my first 11ty build on the free punch cards attached to the cover of Babbage Weekly.

   1. Build Awesome Mastodon 11 hr later

      @simoncox amazing — if you have a picture please share

      1. Simon Cox Mastodon 11 hr later

         @11ty

         Actually I do have an etching to hand:

         #11ty

         1. Build Awesome Mastodon 11 hr later

            @simoncox *incredible* thank you

6. Gabriel N Mastodon 11 hr later

   @11ty when it was called 2ly! Good times!

7. Michael Bluesky 11 hr later

   3d printing has gone too far

   1. Build Awesome Bluesky 11 hr later

      you wouldn’t 3d print a car

8. ppk 🇪🇺 Bluesky 11 hr later

   I well remember receiving the latest version of jQuery plus plugins on 173 floppy disks delivered by mail.

   Ah, those were the days...

   1. Build Awesome Bluesky 11 hr later

      people talk about a stationwagon full of hard drives — try a covered wagon full of punch cards

      1. Michael Bluesky 11 hr later

         "Nobody will ever need more memory than a covered wagon full of punch cards" --Bill Gates Probably

   2. Private reply Bluesky 20 hr later
9. Juri Bluesky 11 hr later

   and ppl complain about what we have today. Imagine the cost of “a quick bugfix patch”

   1. Build Awesome Bluesky 11 hr later

      the cost of software updates has gone down — I wonder if that has affected the quality of software 😅

      1. Luke Bluesky 11 hr later

         Testing

10. David Moll Bluesky 11 hr later

    I wonder if IPoAC was ever considered en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over...

    1. Build Awesome Bluesky 11 hr later

       we experimented with IPoPC (possum carriers) for awhile

       1. Michael Bluesky 11 hr later

          ACK

          1. Build Awesome Bluesky 11 hr later

             SYN

11. Build Awesome Zach Leatherman Bluesky 11 hr later

    (inspired by @chappelltracker.bsky.social! bsky.app/profile/chap...)

12. Matthias Ott Bluesky 11 hr later

    Not many people know this but this is also how @font-face used to work originally and that’s why we write font-display: swap to this day!

    1. Build Awesome Bluesky 11 hr later

       you used the 7 system-safe fonts and you loved it

    2. Jason Pamental Bluesky 12 hr later

       The really cool kids would swap a whole line at a time 😆

       1. Matthias Ott Bluesky 12 hr later

          🧐 Is that an … invariable font, Jason?

          1. Jason Pamental Bluesky 12 hr later

             Earlier release of the technology: ‘melt-and-replace’ 🤣

          2. Build Awesome Zach Leatherman Bluesky 12 hr later

             ahaha this exchange is iframeable

             1. Jason Pamental Bluesky 12 hr later

                If you did them individually you’d have a nice <frameset>

                1. Matthias Ott Bluesky 13 hr later

                   And if you slowly pushed them across the table, you‘d get what the really cool kids used to call <marquee> 😅

                   1. Jason Pamental Bluesky 13 hr later

                      <blink>

                      I hadn’t thought about that.

13. gio 🇵🇷 Bluesky 11 hr later

    nice save icon

14. Rasmus Fløe Bluesky 12 hr later

    May or may not have pirated it...

    1. Build Awesome Bluesky 12 hr later

       get out the pencil we need to rewind it a bit

15. Justin Hunter Bluesky 12 hr later

    Bring back the 5 1/4" floppy

16. Jay Hannah Mastodon 13 hr later

    @11ty got 5 1/4”?

    1. Build Awesome Mastodon 16 hr later

       @deafferret best I can do is 8″

       1. Jay Hannah Mastodon 17 hr later

          @11ty lol... even I am not old enough for 8". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk

17. Pier Bluesky 14 hr later

    you joke but 20+ years ago we used to buy magazines with CDs that included software

    actual paper magazines

    1. Build Awesome Bluesky 19 hr later

       WHO IS JOKING

       1. mortendk Bluesky 1 day later

          It was aaaamaaaaazing

          Getting all kinds of awesome software done by small Indy developers

          😍

18. psarant Mastodon 16 hr later

    @11ty So probably one of these would be fun. Especially with the 500kb bundle.

    1. Build Awesome Mastodon 16 hr later

       @psarant ahah is that a usb stick

       1. psarant Mastodon 16 hr later

          @11ty It appears to be so. I couldn’t find it for sale, but admittedly I didn’t look very hard.

19. Salt Lake Techie Bluesky 22 hr later

    Ah yes, back when you had to order JSON from a catalog