On the other hand, when the author wanted to push Unicode on this, I felt old and immediately pictured Epsons old wire bound manuals outlining supported characters (a subset of ASCII if I recall)
- the POST beep
- the sound a floppy drive makes after inserting
- the infernal scream of a dot matrix printer
- even I don't miss dial-up sounds though.
I also recommend her memoir "Arbitrary Stupid Goal" [2] but that has a lot less tech nostalgia and just a lot of funny anecdotes about her family and their diner on the Lower East Side.
[1] https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374602581/laserwriterii [2] https://www.tamarashopsin.com/asgfaq/#/
I do. It's like the walk-up song to talking to my friends and having a good time.
most boards won't have any. if you pay premium, you get post beep. if you pay even more you get post stage led indicators.
so this item on your list is not about the past but enshitification.