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   Programmer 832-529 🍅 (smallsees@social.dropbear.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jan-2026 06:43:58 JST Programmer 832-529 🍅

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️

   @thomasfuchs there was that whole metaverse land rush. Like better get some virtual real estate now before it all... goes?

   Was also a way of younger people locked out of the real housing market to have some sort of property ownership. Not sure how having a metaverse island makes you less homeless.

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     Ethin Probst (draeand@social.the-gdn.net)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jan-2026 10:06:27 JST Ethin Probst

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Lol this was great, and so true. Gotta love hype cycles, especially when they get out of control

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     Raps Calorie (rapscalorie@cyberplace.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jan-2026 12:08:48 JST Raps Calorie

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Why's my boy Flash catching strays? It was actually tight for quite some time 😂 of course it's time came, but it at least DID deliver.

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     Fried Chicken (a_phlaming_phoenix@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jan-2026 12:21:44 JST Fried Chicken

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs You missed 3D TVs.

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     Nicola (cryogenicice9@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jan-2026 12:39:33 JST Nicola

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Something something XHTML

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     Christopher Drum (christopherdrum@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jan-2026 12:58:11 JST Christopher Drum

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs If expert systems weren't inevitable, how do you explain what I just did with a C64?

     https://stonetools.ghost.io/xper-c64

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     mike bayer :python_logo: (zzzeek@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jan-2026 17:20:57 JST mike bayer :python_logo:

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs

     mongodb

     is

     WEB

     SCALE

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     J. R. DePriest :verified_trans: :donor: :Moopsy: :EA DATA. SF: (jrdepriest@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jan-2026 23:24:42 JST J. R. DePriest :verified_trans: :donor: :Moopsy: :EA DATA. SF:

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs

     That makes me wonder: what are the most transformative technologies of the past 50 years that everybody just shrugged and adopted because they weren't backed by the filthy rich?

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     Glen T, heated, not stirred (glent@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jan-2026 23:24:42 JST Glen T, heated, not stirred

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     • Thomas 🔭🕹️
     • J. R. DePriest :verified_trans: :donor: :Moopsy: :EA DATA. SF:

     @jrdepriest @thomasfuchs A lot of my suggestions turned out to be just beyond 50 years old. Microprocessors, TCP, Unix.

     I think I'll go with the iPhone 3G, aka, 'the smartphone'. And yeah, that has microprocessors and TCP and Unix. My argument would be that the integration of all those technologies created another thing entirely.

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     Fabian Transchel (ftranschel@norden.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jan-2026 23:33:52 JST Fabian Transchel

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Otoh, nobody saw email coming.

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     GayDeceiver (gaydeceiver@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jan-2026 02:21:52 JST GayDeceiver

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs AOL will become the portal to the Internet.

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     Rupert V/ (rupert@mastodon.nz)'s status on Friday, 09-Jan-2026 21:36:09 JST Rupert V/

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Forty years ago last month I got my first software development job.
     So it's about forty years and 30 days since I first heard someone say "... and we won't need programmers any more".