I don't know why, but tonight I'm feeling really nostalgic for the 80s.

[stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

I don't know why, but tonight I'm feeling really nostalgic for the 80s.

[zolaris@mastodon.illumos.cafe]

@stefano Then check this out! https://github.com/chettrick/discobsd

[andersgo@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@stefano Urge to smoke indoors?

[lorenzo@snac.bobadin.icu]

I feel you. I'd like to have lived 80s! Was too young!

[stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@zolaris wow!

[stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@andersgo ahah no, I never smoked

[nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@stefano Welcome to my world!

[arosano@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@stefano October '83 I worked with Siemens Data and was sent with some colleages to the release event of #Sinix, the Siemens Unix, and a mini computer series with that OS. Subsequently I took courses in the OS and #C programming. I read the first edition of "The C Programming Language" in German(!)
I was hooked. Since then it was primarily #Unix for me.

[stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@lorenzo I was a kid, but I remember that general, positive feeling.

[stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@arosano wow, great story. Thank you for sharing it!

[sborrill@justfollow.me.uk]

@stefano Then come and watch my #80sMusic band play on Saturday!

[stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@sborrill that would be so great!

[linkshaender@bildung.social]

@stefano Ah the 80s, when the greatest danger to our civilization was the „Neue Deutsche Welle“. 😆 Did you know two friends and me called Peter Norton in 1985 because we discovered a defect phone booth? 😎

[slash909uk@mastodon.me.uk]

@stefano hehe, I was there and most of my music taste still is! 😁

Not the hair, however. Mullets ... urgh.

University from 85-89 playing with Sun Solaris pizza boxes in our Electronics lab while the Computer Science dept still had a room full of VT220s on their PDP system... sigh.

[nux@fosstodon.org]

@stefano a song that takes me back instantly and brutally every single time is this old anthem from Italia '90. There are a few others with this effect, but this might be the most potent one and somewhat relevant to you (ita).

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N2ANAqO1TLs

[stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@Linkshaender oh really? This is nice!

[stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@Slash909uk wow, sounds nice!

[stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@Nux this is so 80ies! This song has the same effect on me, and I have clear memories of those days. Some aspects of my character were defined in those days. I'll probably write a blog post now that the memory has resurfaced.

[linkshaender@bildung.social]

@stefano Just blogged the English version of it.

[stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@Linkshaender this looks great! I'm going to read it later today. Thank you sharing it!