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History Doesn't Repeat, But AI Sure Does Rhyme

19 days ago 161.9K views 0 shares

The tech industry's collective amnesia is truly spectacular. First, we survived the video game crash of '83, then the dot-com implosion, followed by crypto's rollercoaster of disappointment. Now we're watching the AI hype train barrel toward the same cliff while techbros insist "but this time it's different because GPT-5 and 6!" It's like watching someone confidently build a sandcastle below the tide line for the fourth time. History doesn't repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme... with a neural network-generated beat drop.

Bloat Is Goat

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25 days ago 182.8K views 0 shares

The evolution of programming efficiency is hilariously tragic. In 1975, Chad programmers hand-optimized machine code to squeeze games into kilobytes. By 2000, we'd accepted some bloat for productivity with high-level languages. Fast forward to 2025, and we've got "programmers" creating calculator apps that consume 1GB of RAM because they've stuffed 69 frameworks into an Electron wrapper. Meanwhile, they're busy impressing AI girlfriends while Microsoft casually commits open-source theft. We went from calculating trajectories to the moon on 4KB of RAM to needing 16GB just to run VS Code without crashing. Progress™

Developers Developers Developers AI-AI-AI

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1 month ago 157.8K views 0 shares

Developers Developers Developers AI-AI-AI

The corporate tech evolution in one image! On the left, we have Steve Ballmer's infamous sweaty "DEVELOPERS!" chant from 2000—back when human coders were the golden ticket to success. Fast forward to 2023, and CEOs are now calmly announcing how AI will "revolutionize our lives" while simultaneously telling HR to fire thousands of the same developers they once desperately needed. The tech industry's relationship status with developers: "It's complicated." Yesterday's rockstars are today's budget line items. Nothing says "thanks for building our trillion-dollar empires" quite like being replaced by the very tools you created.

The Myth Of The Good Tech Giant

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1 month ago 179.0K views 0 shares

That blue paperclip isn't offering to help with your Word document. It's the tech industry admitting what we all suspected - they'd have started harvesting your data decades earlier if they'd only thought of it. Remember when privacy was just something we had instead of something we clicked "Agree" to surrender? Those were the days... before every app needed to know your location to tell you the weather outside your window.

Feel Old Yet?

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1 month ago 170.4K views 0 shares

Remember when "burning a CD" meant laser-etching data onto a shiny disc instead of committing arson? Nothing makes you feel like a digital fossil quite like explaining to Gen Z that we once had to wait 20 minutes to copy Linkin Park's "Hybrid Theory" onto a circular piece of plastic that would skip if you breathed on it wrong. And no, you couldn't just "AirDrop" it—you had to physically hand someone your mix like a technological caveman. Those were dark times... with progress bars.

How The Tables Have Turned

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1 month ago 164.4K views 0 shares

30 years and the tables have turned! In 1994, Windows users were the serious business types while Linux nerds were the smug outsiders. Fast forward to 2024, and suddenly Linux is the sensible choice for actual work while Windows users are busy rebooting after another forced update. Nothing says "technological evolution" quite like watching Microsoft slowly transform their OS into what looks like a billboard with occasional computing features. The irony is delicious – and completely lost on anyone still waiting for their Windows 11 widgets to load.

He Never Asked For My Data

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1 month ago 159.0K views 0 shares

OMG, the AUDACITY of people romanticizing Clippy in 2023! 💅 That paperclip assistant from Microsoft Office was literally THE ORIGINAL PRIVACY INVADER before it was cool! While we're all losing our minds about apps tracking our every move, Clippy was just sitting there, innocently bouncing around our Word documents, NOT asking for our age, NOT canceling our perpetual licenses, and NOT demanding our location. THE HORROR! A digital assistant that just... helped?! Without stealing our data?! What a concept! *dramatically faints onto keyboard*

Software Names: Eighties Vs Twenties

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2 months ago 200.5K views 0 shares

Remember when software had actual names with meaning? In the 80s, we named weather prediction software "Aeolus" after the Greek god of winds, complete with a mythological map logo and probably a 500-page manual nobody read. Fast forward to today: "Is it windy? WINDLY™! The logo is literally a 'W' in a circle." Because apparently our creativity died along with our attention spans. Next up: a calculator app called "MATHY" with the groundbreaking tagline "it does math, probably."

Discord Is Just IRC For Zoomers

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2 months ago 194.3K views 0 shares

GASP! The AUDACITY of this truth bomb! 💣 Discord—that shiny, emoji-filled, notification-factory we all pretend is "revolutionary"—is literally just IRC with a makeover and marketing budget! It's like watching your dad try to be cool by wearing the same clothes as you but calling them by different names. IRC veterans are SCREAMING into their mechanical keyboards right now while Gen Z is like "what's an IRC?" For the uninitiated, IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is the prehistoric dinosaur that ruled chat platforms since the 80s before Discord waltzed in with its fancy interface and convinced everyone it invented group messaging. The circle of tech life continues—everything old becomes new again, just with more GIFs and a higher valuation!

Grandpa Python: The OG Coding Language

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2 months ago 146.5K views 0 shares

Turns out Python's been silently judging Java for being the "new kid" all along. While everyone's busy arguing about which language is better, Python's sitting there with its reading glasses on like "I remember when you were just a glint in Sun Microsystems' eye." Four years might not seem like much, but in programming years? That's basically a generation gap. No wonder Python looks at Java's enterprise features and just mutters "kids these days with their fancy garbage collection and verbose syntax."

The Great Python Mobile Massacre

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3 months ago 285.3K views 0 shares

Remember when Python had dreams of mobile dominance? Yeah, neither does anyone else. The meme perfectly captures how Apple and Google teamed up like anime villains to strangle Python's mobile aspirations. Python could've been a contender in the mobile space (Nokia's PyS60 was actually a thing), but the ecosystem gatekeepers decided that a language where indentation matters and everything runs like it's wading through molasses wasn't ideal for battery-powered pocket computers. Shocking. Now Python devs just sit in dark rooms training neural networks while Swift and Kotlin developers actually ship apps people use. The circle of life in tech.

Back To The Prompt Future

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3 months ago 222.8K views 0 shares

The evolution of command-line interfaces is a beautiful tragedy. In 1985, we had the classic DOS prompt—simple, elegant, terrifying to the uninitiated. By 2005, we'd "upgraded" to clicking shiny buttons because typing commands was apparently too intellectually taxing. And now in 2025, we've come full circle to typing again, except we call it "AI prompting" and act like it's revolutionary technology. Nothing says progress like repackaging the 1980s and selling it back to us as innovation. The command line never died; it just got better marketing.

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