mmphosis

3 monitors: 2K laptop on a stand, 4K rotated, 2K rotated & sometimes scaled to 4K. Lots of screen space.

Windows in strategic positions, sized small to fit the content. I removed maximize. I never maximize. I full screen a single game or video to one of the monitors when desirable. I rarely minimize. A dock on the bottom of the laptop with windows grouped by program -- very manageable. Placement and size of windows. Being able to see everything at a glance. I wish XFCE could save window positions and sizes.

No tabs. My default is new window. When desirable, I only create new tabs in a web browser window. Programs get separate windows, no tabs. I have custom CSS to hide the tab bar when there is only one tab. No tab bar is my default. I manually save URLs if important and close web browser tabs if I've gone down a rabbit hole. Destroy all tabs. My browser clears all history. Starting the browser opens a single custom web page window, no tabs, with recent URLs that I saved.

No tabs.

I had only ever known ski lifts.

One day, way before the lifts had started, I hiked up the mountain, snowboard under my arm. Trudging, my breath heavy, lungs filling, oxygen, snow, blue sky, cold but my body warmed. There was not one track in the fresh powder. My snowboard was slower in the powder, and I felt safe in the knowledge. I had to work a little harder. Carving.

1) Apple II plus with pulse dial at 110 or 300 baud, once a week or less in 1984 and make sure nobody needs to use the phone, the program that came with the modem or my hacked up version with better throughput.

2) local phone numbers, that use of the word "server" would have been unknown to me

3) again, what's a server?

4) limited discussion, games was the focus, my memory is probably wrong

5) the abbreviated word "tech" would not appear until at least a decade later. Programming was offline in books, class and classmates; not online. It was limited, flaky chat, no "topics" except games

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