geeks

The Lindy Effect is the idea that something lasts about as long as it has already. I first heard about it in a blog post by Matt Rickard and it makes a lot of sense to me. Things that reach an equilibrium state tend to stay in that state. Plenty of physical things follow this sort of pattern and it makes sense that it applies to things that humans construct as well.

This article about The Home Computer Generation struck a chord with me. I think there are a lot of us Gen Xers who fell in love with computing due to our early exposure to primitive home computers. I fondly remember the Atari 800. We had some games and a simple word processor (and a weird dot matrix printer that was super slow and noisy) but my favorite thing was Atari Basic.