Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🔤SpellBinding: EVLNTUF Wordo: RUSTS

• Technology and Free Software

  • Projects workflow

    I used to be quite good at managing projects, but somewhere along the line I fell off the wagon. I think it was a work thing. A new role introduced complexity with having to work in shared workspaces, and new systems and requirements around workflows which I had no choice in. But also my own interest in different PKM systems and ways of doing things got the better of me.

  • techno weenies (re. fab)

    1. When did you first get interested in technology?

    as a kid I was nerdy, I liked space ships and aliens and the Transformers. other boys liked sports and firefighters and soldiers. but I wasn't unusual, that's just stuff kids like. when I was about six or seven the high school my aunt was attending had an open day and part of the activities was a demonstration of computer communication from the computer club. this is before the Internet, and before BBS really took off, it was just nerds showing off their network, including realtime chat. I point to that exact moment, that was when the bug bit me and I knew computers, networks, communications and technology were what I wanted to do.

  • When did you first get interested in technology?

    I honestly can't remember. As a kid, in the late seventies / early eighties, even before I learned how to read, I was opening up my parents' electronic devices (much to their dismay) to see what was inside. When I was a bit older, I devoured everything the library had about electronics and computer design, eagerly awaiting the latest issues of electronics and computer magazines.

    Technology, electronics and computers were developing rapidly. There was always something new featured in the magazines or the rare television programme dedicated to inventions and high-tech.

    We went from tape decks (I'm a bit too young to have actually used punch cards) to floppy disks, hard-disks, CD/DVD media and finally flash storage. We went from simple single core 8-bit processors with a single operating mode to the complex CPUs with multiple processors, memory isolation and virtualisation of today. From dial-up modems and BBS-es to the modern day ubiquitous and always-on internet. Would you believe I remember the days that html and http didn't exist and the world wide web hadn't been invented yet?