One of the hard parts of being a historian of computing...

One of the hard parts of being a historian of computing is <gestures broadly at everything happening in tech rn>

Like 23 Nov 2023 at 5:54 | Open on mastodon.social

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@histoftech you'll never be out of a job at least?

23 Nov 2023 at 5:59 | Open on mastodon.social

@histoftech Anecdotally it seems most of the people doing computing are completely uninterested in its history 😢

23 Nov 2023 at 6:04 | Open on social.sdf.org

@mjgardner sure does! And that the ones who are tend not to be listened to or given as much VC!

23 Nov 2023 at 6:24 | Open on mastodon.social

@histoftech @mjgardner yeeeeaaaaah. "fun" question for the historians "how did we end up funding this stuff with VC only" (not only ofc but...)

23 Nov 2023 at 7:15 | Open on hachyderm.io

@histoftech @mjgardner Nobody likes the people who can explain why their brilliant plan doesn't work.

23 Nov 2023 at 8:00 | Open on mstdn.social