Hackers' Pub

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hkz @hkz@chinwag.org

1/8/2026, 5:56:04 PM

Public

After I chat with some people, I realized I have issues in understanding their concept of nostalgia.

It's some kind of magical thinking.

Something is cool, fun or worth the time/expense because it's old. Time passing imbues qualities into things.

A clone, a reproduction, something functionally identical, does not possess these qualities.

I would understand a "it doesn't have the same repairability or understandability" in regards to an FPGA implementation. I'd understand "it's just a more capable machine wasting cycles pretending to be something it's not" of an emulator.

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