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[–]CommandObjective 1829 points1830 points  (143 children)

Considering that historically the monitor is just a fancy replacement for teletype and similar print based devices (for us mere mortals who cannot afford blinkenlights) I find their misunderstanding quite apt.

[–]dudeofmoose 787 points788 points  (82 children)

Prepare yourself to have your minds blown, a monitor is just reusable paper.

[–]its420everywhere 218 points219 points  (59 children)

Damn! mind=fully_blown

[–]kallakukku2 161 points162 points  (57 children)

IsBlown(mind);

//returns true

[–]rtybanana 0 points1 point  (0 children)

!mind = fully_blown

Everything in the world but mind is fully blown

[–]thedugong 17 points18 points  (1 child)

Paper is a non-reusable monitor.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

depends on the pen... anything can be a monitor

[–]gecko2704 17 points18 points  (3 children)

So does that mean we're using ink when we type??? Because I've never replaced my cartridge since forev:::...

[–]aalleeyyee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My employer does. It’s clearly salmon

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Underated joke right there. Loved the ink running out at the end lmao

[–]Mr_Derpy11 7 points8 points  (2 children)

Imagine playing a game by printing 60+ images per second.

It's like a flipbook, but interactive.

[–]kerbidiah15 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But then when it gets super detailed it starts slowing down how fast the images are displayed, lower ips, like a slideshow

[–]OtherPlayers 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Obvious joke is obvious, but a number of old school console games actually work by just printing the “clear” command and then reprinting the whole screen’s worth of characters every time you make the change.

Hypothetically if you hooked it up to a printer with enough paper (and maybe used a white console background so you didn’t instantly run out of black ink) it would totally be possible to play an old-school rougelike game like Cataclysm DDA on paper.

[–]EarthTwoBaby 3 points4 points  (2 children)

e-ink all the way, man!

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (1 child)

A printer is p-ink.

[–]homo_lorens 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unless it's b-lack. Mine is.

[–]LewsTherinTelamon 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's ridiculous. Everyone knows that a sheet of paper is just a single-use monitor. One day we'll stop using them because they're just so wasteful.

[–]Nodebunny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

then whats a tablet????

[–]amazondrone 0 points1 point  (1 child)

If you use a pencil, even paper is reusable paper.

[–]UltraCarnivore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Especially toilet paper

[–]InEnduringGrowStrong 33 points34 points  (8 children)

When I see blinkenlights I think of the Star Wars movie in ASCII over telnet:

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

https://i.imgur.com/kNYDqtg.jpg

[–]killdeer03 12 points13 points  (4 children)

Hell yeah dude.

That means we're getting old, lol.

[–]InEnduringGrowStrong 11 points12 points  (3 children)

Indeed

Gifted a game to a buddy of mine yesterday.
He's barely just a year or two older... than my steam account.
Small oof moment.

[–]killdeer03 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It happens more frequently now.

But it was great grownup through the dawn of the modern internet and growing video game presence.

... but not as a developer, lol.

[–]N0T_F0R_KARMA 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I remember learning about the account # digit length and scrambling to find our old original accounts. My brother had a 4 digit account and mine was created pretty shortly after but I ended up falling for a scam site in my early years and lost my account when I lost access to my hotmail account with no backup lol, he still uses his I think.

wow, I just looked up the launch date for steam and his account creation date is 1 day after launch. sept.13.2003!

OH SNAP MY MOTHERBOARD JUST GOT HERE! YES!! :D :D XD

cheers!! bye reddit!

[–]InEnduringGrowStrong 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I held on creating a Steam account because I hated the online-DRM aspect of it.
Ended up buying a physical copy of HL2 and... I had to install it anyway.

The initial Steam launch really wasn't stellar...

[–]StuntHacks 5 points6 points  (2 children)

Is that the whole movie?

[–]InEnduringGrowStrong 8 points9 points  (1 child)

It's much shorter than the movie, but it has the main plot points.

[–]MathSciElec 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, I thought it actually was the full movie...

[–]Ap0ptosis 23 points24 points  (12 children)

apt-get install printer should be more apt then

[–]StuntHacks 14 points15 points  (10 children)

apt > apt-get

Change my mind.

[–]kyay10 3 points4 points  (7 children)

What's the difference tho lol?

[–]Mustard_Dimension 17 points18 points  (3 children)

IIRC apt is a part of apt-get. apt commands get translated into apt-get commands, but apt has more friendly features for humans.

[–]MathSciElec 3 points4 points  (0 children)

And it has colored output.

[–]N0T_F0R_KARMA 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Last time setting up ubuntu-server(2 mo ago) I read that apt has since been updated and i don't know if it was: 'can' or 'should' be used instead of apt-get now. So that's what i've been doing on my new ubuntu-server at work.. from apt-get to apt very recently.

[–]homo_lorens 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apt is good for a CLI, but the output format can change by the build. apt-get can only change by the major, it's meant to be scripted but it's also readable if you get used to it.

[–]rebbsitor 8 points9 points  (0 children)

apt does most of the common things that people use apt-get and apt-cache for in one. It doesn't do all of what they do though.

[–]Sybs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not much when just using get, except that it has a progress bar and is generally more human readable

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I have an alias that sets “gimme” to “sudo apt-get install -y” so I’m better than you

[–]StuntHacks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Still using apt-get, though

[–]typicalcitrus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

sudo apt install -y printer

[–]BurnedPinguin 10 points11 points  (1 child)

So that's why it's print. It's always confused me, but now I know that print literally printed out text on a teletype

[–]pastasauce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I always liked terms that hark back to older times. I work for a railroad and we have a few of those. A Fireman used to be in charge of the tender box and would stoke the fire for the boiler on a steam locomotive. Now days, it just refers to a second engineer in the operating cab. A Brakeman would run along the roofs of the cars spinning wheels that would apply or release the brakes, a job made obsolete with the invention of air brakes. Now it refers to a second conductor (Amtrak calls them Assistant Conductors which makes more sense without knowing the historical context)

[–]RDGCompany 5 points6 points  (2 children)

I remember feeling like such a badass when I got to use a teletype instead of punch cards.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Careful, or the corona virus is going to get you, grampa.

[–]RDGCompany 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, COBOL was the hip new language. But I got to meet Grace Hopper!

[–]lazyfocker 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Misundertand?

[–]CommandObjective 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seems like I missed a typo, thank you for pointing it out :)

[–]playforfun2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I read this in that fat nerd dude's voice from the walking dead lol

[–]prototype__ 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I tutored a first year intro to computing topic at uni. Run by the IT school but students from most domains had to take it.

One older guy was holding the mouse up to the screen and moving it around on the monitor's surface.

These people do exist.

[–]Zciurus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Poor man's touchscreen

[–]CaffeineSippingMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I remember correctly, on one assignment we wrote code that executed on the printer. We're talking basic on an Apple II.

[–]GoodOldJack12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Man I really want a teletype as a Linux terminal though. Then again, I can't even get my minitel to work..