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*[[wikipedia:Ada_(programming_language)|Ada]]

== Why ==

==Why==

Here's a quote from 100R (links added by me; typos corrected):<ref>https://100r.co/site/weathering_software_winter.html</ref><blockquote>Many of the tools that we thought we could rely on broke down, whether it is [[Apple]] products, or software that require [[Subscription service|subscription services]], <abbr>[[Digital rights management|DRM]]</abbr>, etc. As an artist you spend time developing a skill, you become a Photoshop illustrator. When your connection to the internet fails and that the software locks up, that skill that you thought was [[Right to own|yours]] was actually entirely owned by someone, and can be taken away.

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There seems to be a growing interest in [[wikipedia:Retrocomputing|retrocomputing]], and that interest likely stems, in large part, because the complexity of modern computer systems and their software environment is extremely high, and there is constant unnecessary churn, which becomes exhausting. At some point, programmers just want to build, and there is a natural desire to declutter and have fun.</blockquote>

There seems to be a growing interest in [[wikipedia:Retrocomputing|retrocomputing]], and that interest likely stems, in large part, because the complexity of modern computer systems and their software environment is extremely high, and there is constant unnecessary churn, which becomes exhausting. At some point, programmers just want to build, and there is a natural desire to declutter and have fun.</blockquote>Jeff Huang:<ref>{{Cite web |last=Huang |first=Jeff |date=2019-12-19 |title=This Page is Designed to Last: A Manifesto for Preserving Content on the Web |url=https://jeffhuang.com/designed_to_last/ |access-date=2026-04-26}}</ref><blockquote>Bookmark after bookmark led to dead link after dead link. What's vanished: unique pieces of writing on kuro5hin about tech culture; a collection of mathematical puzzles and their associated discussion by academics that my father introduced me to; Woodman's Reverse Engineering tutorials from my high school years, where I first tasted the feeling of control over software; even my most recent bookmark, a series of posts on Google+ exposing usb-c chargers' non-compliance with the specification, all disappeared.

This is more than just [[wikipedia:Link_rot|link rot]], it's the increasing complexity of keeping alive indie content on the web, leading to a reliance on platforms and time-sorted publication formats (blogs, feeds, tweets).</blockquote>

==External links==

*[https://geminiprotocol.net/docs/faq.gmi Project Gemini FAQ]

*"[https://jeffhuang.com/designed_to_last/ This Page is Designed to Last: A Manifesto for Preserving Content on the Web]"

*[https://github.com/thisisisa/awesome-permacomputing etc...]

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 *[[wikipedia:Ada_(programming_language)|Ada]]
-== Why ==
+==Why==
 Here's a quote from 100R (links added by me; typos corrected):<ref>https://100r.co/site/weathering_software_winter.html</ref><blockquote>Many of the tools that we thought we could rely on broke down, whether it is [[Apple]] products, or software that require [[Subscription service|subscription services]], <abbr>[[Digital rights management|DRM]]</abbr>, etc. As an artist you spend time developing a skill, you become a Photoshop illustrator. When your connection to the internet fails and that the software locks up, that skill that you thought was [[Right to own|yours]] was actually entirely owned by someone, and can be taken away.
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-There seems to be a growing interest in [[wikipedia:Retrocomputing|retrocomputing]], and that interest likely stems, in large part, because the complexity of modern computer systems and their software environment is extremely high, and there is constant unnecessary churn, which becomes exhausting. At some point, programmers just want to build, and there is a natural desire to declutter and have fun.</blockquote>
+There seems to be a growing interest in [[wikipedia:Retrocomputing|retrocomputing]], and that interest likely stems, in large part, because the complexity of modern computer systems and their software environment is extremely high, and there is constant unnecessary churn, which becomes exhausting. At some point, programmers just want to build, and there is a natural desire to declutter and have fun.</blockquote>Jeff Huang:<ref>{{Cite web |last=Huang |first=Jeff |date=2019-12-19 |title=This Page is Designed to Last: A Manifesto for Preserving Content on the Web |url=https://jeffhuang.com/designed_to_last/ |access-date=2026-04-26}}</ref><blockquote>Bookmark after bookmark led to dead link after dead link. What's vanished: unique pieces of writing on kuro5hin about tech culture; a collection of mathematical puzzles and their associated discussion by academics that my father introduced me to; Woodman's Reverse Engineering tutorials from my high school years, where I first tasted the feeling of control over software; even my most recent bookmark, a series of posts on Google+ exposing usb-c chargers' non-compliance with the specification, all disappeared.
+This is more than just [[wikipedia:Link_rot|link rot]], it's the increasing complexity of keeping alive indie content on the web, leading to a reliance on platforms and time-sorted publication formats (blogs, feeds, tweets).</blockquote>
 ==External links==
 *[https://geminiprotocol.net/docs/faq.gmi Project Gemini FAQ]
-*"[https://jeffhuang.com/designed_to_last/ This Page is Designed to Last: A Manifesto for Preserving Content on the Web]"
 *[https://github.com/thisisisa/awesome-permacomputing etc...]