I hate to say it, but I think it was the tech nerds who did it. Also ruined Linux. Victims of our own success.
We thought this stuff was cool and wanted everyone else to agree with us, but 20 years ago you had to (eg.) modify driver .ini files to get games to work properly. So we spent billions of dollars and man-centuries of time to make it work well. But that all came at a cost which we are now paying.
See also: Eternal September. This is the story of the golem but for tech nerds. It is our failure mode: each generation of tech nerd cannot help but fall into the same pattern as his predecessors.
In retrospect "the Internet but for 130+ IQ Anglo academics" was the ideal. We just didn't realize it. Should have made the connection when the first sign of trouble was caused by the Internet opening up to 120+ Anglo undergraduate students.
I hate to say it, but I think it was the tech nerds who did it. Also ruined Linux. Victims of our own success.
We thought this stuff was cool and wanted everyone else to agree with us, but 20 years ago you had to (eg.) modify driver .ini files to get games to work properly. So we spent billions of dollars and man-centuries of time to make it work well. But that all came at a cost which we are now paying.
See also: Eternal September. This is the story of the golem but for tech nerds. It is our failure mode: each generation of tech nerd cannot help but fall into the same pattern as his predecessors.
In retrospect "the Internet but for 130+ IQ Anglo academics" was the ideal. We just didn't realize it. Should have made the connection when the first sign of trouble was caused by the Internet opening up to 120+ Anglo undergraduate students.
lmao. yeah you anglos will save us. as you did in ww1 and 2.
look on the brightside: at least nerd chic fell out of favor.
...If I had to see one more abercrombie and fitch model in a green lantern t-shirt say absolutely nothing of value about vidya...