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The 44 Year Old Computer Magazine That Changed Everything [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSnw5pPEPBc
12•xkriva11•4h ago

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xkriva11•3h ago
This Byte volume can be found here: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08/mode/2up
zeeshanala•3h ago
Hdjodgoy
dosinga•3h ago
I remember biking to the library to read it every time it came out
jaybrendansmith•43m ago
Ha! Same.
commandersaki•3h ago
I tried to watch the first bit of the video, but I'm still trying to figure what exactly did it change?
timonoko•3h ago
There was no internet, so unless you were connected to educational organization and their curriculum, there was no way to get information of various topics in somewhat palatable way. BYTE changed all that, and suddenly everybody could learn all about Prolog and Smalltalk and other Scheiße.
TruffleLabs•2h ago
Byte was a magazine I always looked forward to receiving as it had a great connection via the writers to what was happening in the computer and software world.
mikewarot•10m ago
It's a real shame that Object Oriented programming got perverted into a boatload of boilerplate, as evidenced in C++, Java, etc.

I was all on board with it in Borland Pascal for Windows, and Delphi, but when I looked at C++, I got off that train. You can always take a good idea, and go too far with it... I never did understand the whole Factories for classes thing.

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