It's a little late for New Year's platitudes, so let's just get to it...
I was going to make my first post of 2010 a "best of" this, "worst of" that...but seeing as it's taken so long for me to decide on the topic, I'm gonna cheat a bit, and at the same time offer something that is uncharacteristically less cynical at the top of the decade. Maybe it's 2012 looming on the horizon (remember how devastating Y2K was!!!) or maybe it's just that I desperately needed a break from all of the earsplittinloudenboomer noise, of this very loud, and out of control 21st century.
Either way, I'd like to start this decade by taking you back twenty years - nearly to the day...
If you've played with some variation of home computer since their inception, as I have, then I can guarantee you'll be treated to some sweet nostalgia. If you're fairly new to computers, but really enjoy blogs, forums and peer-to-peer, then you'll be entertained by a little history lesson about the early days of your hobby!
In the fall of 1989 I was a member of The Metro Toronto ST User Group (MTST), an Atari enthusiast group. At least I assume I was, because when I moved a year ago, I uncovered the February 1990 issue of the MTST Newsletter in which, much to my memory-deficient surprise, I had written an article!
In the fall of 1989 I was a member of The Metro Toronto ST User Group (MTST), an Atari enthusiast group. At least I assume I was, because when I moved a year ago, I uncovered the February 1990 issue of the MTST Newsletter in which, much to my memory-deficient surprise, I had written an article!
It's certainly is not the best thing I've written, but what the heck... I'm not posting it to put forward a 20 year old opinion - most, if not all, of my arguments are no longer valid in the context of technology today. And it is that very reality - the massive advances in technology in 20 short years - that gives this piece more entertainment value today than it had in 1990!
So here, direct from the age of BBSing (ask your parents), out of print for 20 years, is my very own:
CONFESSIONS OF A SOFTWARE PIRATE
(bet that'll get a few search hits!)
