EDIT: Enshittification, also known as platform decay, is a process in which two-sided online products and services decline in quality over time. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to both users and business customers to maximize short-term profits for shareholders.

  • nymnympseudonym@piefed.social
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    6 days ago

    My Radio Shack Tandy 4000, ca 1991

    It had a hard drive. It had color and sound. I could make it do anything I wanted, down to the individual registers using assembly language or high level with Object-Oriented Turbo Pascal.

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      5 days ago

      I think stuff continued to get better for a long time after 1991, but upvote for Tandy.

      (I wish I still had my Tandy 1000 RLX/HD.)