Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux - Old Computers Go to Hell
Aired: 2025-06-14
Duration: 05:10


=== From 300 Board to Cloud Computing (05:10) ===

[00:00:00]  Alright, here we go.
[00:00:02]  So, let us talk about this.
[00:00:08]  So, a job that gets replaced by a new technology.
[00:00:13]  Hmm.
[00:00:16]  It's a little fucking rich, honestly, when people type on their 21st century lit-up keyboards, navigating with their Logitech laser mice.
[00:00:26]  You know, I remember back in the day, man, you had to, Unscrew the bottom of the mouse and clean it out from time to time.
[00:00:32]  Otherwise, it just kind of stopped working.
[00:00:34]  It used to drive me nuts with my Atari 520ST that half the time you have to thump the mouse and get it to work.
[00:00:40]  Now these things work on air, clouds, thoughts.
[00:00:43]  It's incredible.
[00:00:44]  So people who are posting on a new platform, rumble.com, a new platform, did not exist even a couple of years ago, using their super fancy keyboard and mice.
[00:00:57]  Maybe even voice dictation.
[00:00:58]  Maybe they talked into their phone, and their phone translated it into English.
[00:01:03]  Oh, I bet you they're also staring at a flicker-free flat-screen TV.
[00:01:08]  I remember when I was a kid, we had a TV that cost $10.
[00:01:14]  And if you turned it too bright, it got all distorted, so you kind of had to look at it like it was an old aquarium.
[00:01:20]  And I remember trying to watch Wimbledon, because we were big tennis people back in the day.
[00:01:26]  And you couldn't see anything.
[00:01:29]  Like in the old TVs, oh, the golfer has hit the ball into a cloudy sky.
[00:01:34]  Let's just wave the camera around and then, oh, there it is.
[00:01:36]  And you couldn't see smack.
[00:01:39]  So I bet you he's got a nice flat screen, a nice flat screen monitor.
[00:01:46]  And my first computer ran at one megahertz.
[00:01:54]  The first computer I bought was an Atari 800.
[00:01:57]  I think it ran at 1 MHz.
[00:01:59]  And this was player missile graphics, and it had a cozy 8K of RAM, which I then later, in a very sketchy parking lot interaction, bought 32K of RAM to bring it up to 40. And with 8K of RAM, you couldn't even go into graphics 8 with programming, which is the highest level of graphics, where you had to simulate colors by using alternate lines, because the red and the blue.
[00:02:22]  went alternate lines on these crappy old TVs.
[00:02:24]  I bet you he's not...
[00:02:40]  No, he's embracing all the new things in the world.
[00:02:44]  God almighty.
[00:02:46]  People, people, people, this is not directed at you, or even Silver Spider in particular.
[00:02:52]  Get your head out of your asses and look at what you're doing before you start criticizing the world.
[00:02:59]  Just look at what you're doing and you will solve 90% of your philosophical, moral, or economic issues.
[00:03:05]  Are you working on a very old computer?
[00:03:08]  You are not.
[00:03:10]  Are you working on a cathode ray tube monitor?
[00:03:13]  You are not.
[00:03:13]  You are working on a nice digital LED or OLED flat screen.
[00:03:20]  Are you using a typewriter or a keyboard?
[00:03:24]  Is your keyboard PS1 or is it USB?
[00:03:30]  Do you have a 300-board dial-up modem?
[00:03:36]  Back in my day, says Granny, the computers used to talk to each other by screaming over the phone lines.
[00:03:42]  Okay, let's get you to bed.
[00:03:46]  When you try to access the internet, does everyone yell that you interrupted their phone call and it sounds like robots being tortured to death in an orgasm orgy?
[00:03:54]  Nope.
[00:03:55]  Bet you got a nice, fast fiber optic or at least cell data plan, right?
[00:04:02]  Some satellite thing.
[00:04:04]  super fast, right?
[00:04:06]  I remember when it felt like My first modem was 300 board.
[00:04:11]  It was built into...
[00:04:21]  Well, I blew my bank on that one, but I needed it for university.
[00:04:26]  So back in the day, it felt like you could type a web page faster than it could download over 300 board mode.
[00:04:36]  And I remember when a friend of mine showed me his, it went 300 board, And I remember very clearly having a phone line internet.
[00:05:00]  Ooh, quick question.
[00:05:02]  Do you have a Victrola?
[00:05:07]  Do you know the phrase, put a sock in it, which means be quiet?