[throwaway_2494]

I remember when computer magazines were aimed at programmers and had code listings in them.

Then there seemed to come a time when all they talked about was the IBM vs. Microsoft lawsuit. From then on they must have felt that they had discovered a formula, because all they ever yapped about after was insider baseball of computer companies.

I find this sort of corp. vs. corp. coverage boring, sort of like techie reality TV. Who will be voted out tonight, Debra, or Deborah...?

[paradox460]

I remember when wired changed editors. After Chris Anderson left it became "gq but we talk about iPhones"

[cmrdporcupine]

I dunno man, there are two "tech" industry worlds and the one you and I -- hacker types -- think of as "tech" is not what the rest of the world means. They mean the other one, which has almost nothing to do with the actual technology and instead everything to do with the absolutely apeshit amount of money, power, influence and intrigue that the technology enabled.

This was a very large apeshit $$ amount back in IBM vs Microsoft but the scale of it now in the era of e.g. OpenAI etc is beyond imagination.

There's a whole generation of people whose association with the engineering/technology side of things only happened because of their interest in the other side of things.

I too miss old Byte magazine days.

[ethbr1]

This happened when business types realized technology could be enormously profitable (~PC era).

Then inevitably, tech news turned into business news.

[myst]

What do you get if you drop a teaspoon of business into a barrel of X? A barrel of business.

[throwaway_2494]

And anytime programmers start to discuss anything in detail, you know just when it's getting interesting: "Can we take this 'offline'..."

See also this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMVuRGw_a5A

[FeteCommuniste]

Maybe a little extreme but I love it.

[avaer]

What gets me is back in the day when I said I was into tech I got shat on for being a nerd. Now I get shit on for destroying the world. And because I don't care about whose company is dating who (I'd rather be coding), people call me out of touch with "tech".

I feel myself going insane when I think about it too much.

[mattmaroon]

I looked it up, MSFT’s market cap in 2005 was $278 billion and would be like $450 billion in today’s dollars.

OpenAI will IPO soon AI probably more like a trillion.

Crazy.

[andai]

Interesting. So, the actual concern now for the average person is ... which narcissist is steering the apocalypse? Yeah, that's slightly more engaging than RAM prices.

[globalnode]

Replying so I can save this comment :)

[mark_l_watson]

Pardon the almost 50 year old nostalgia, but I got so much out of manually typing in code from old BYTE Magazine and other articles.