irmadlad

This is basically what happened to the music industry. Shawn Fanning scripted Napster, others followed suite. The RIAA squealed and threw a tantrum, busted a realitivly small amount of people, and then all of a sudden, we had .99$ downloads that were quality. The music industry has always been reactive in lieu of proactive. When AM radio first became a thing, the music industry execs squealed because the morons couldn’t figure out how to make a buck off of AM radio. ‘They’re taking our jerbs!’

AFAIC, Shawn was the pivot point in a digital age of music. I don’t condone it, but I understand it.

Well, it worked so well on the home front, why not export it? At least in other countries in my observation, for the most part, the population pretty much knows it’s bs. They do not speak out for fear of harm or death. However, here in the US, average citizens don’t even blink. It’s gobbled up and regurgitated ad nauseam. Then, to seal this in the hearts and minds of America, they label those who would exercise their rights as an American citizen: ultra paranoid, schizophrenic, perhaps a bit mental. The American propaganda machine has no equals.

many of those magazines are bedaubed with felt-tip where I marked my progress whiling away hours typing in those programs.

I got into computers in the mid 70s with the advent of the Altair. Reading your comment was like a flashback. I remember you’d finally get through, meticulously typing in all the pages of code. So your cross your fingers and ran it and got an error. But I was hooked. I still have my Altair, Timex/Sinclair, Ti 99 & 994a. I had/have everything imaginable for the Ti. You needed a kitchen table to spread all that out on.

Later on, as you say, demos became a big thing, I loved the demos. I would write just about anyone giving away a demo of something. Game demos would at least let you play one or two levels.

Don’t try to make sense of it. Just think ‘Oh yeah, it’s that oooold guy’ and nod sympathetically.

I say that because that’s how I use the three:

Readeck: Read it later Karakeep: Data preservation Linkwarden: Important links like business accounts, online accounts, etc.

imho, Karakeep is more for data preservation. Readeck is for articles you want to read later. Linkwarden is for important bookmarks like online accounts, billing accounts, etc. However, there is nothing that keeps you from using either as a bookmark app.