Backdoor in D-Link home routers...turned into the vintage computing and music nostalgia thread...

its hard to explain why i like older technology, i cant help but look at my 1986 nissan and picture alot of hard working japanese men putting each part of it together by hand (and im sure it was hand built because i have taken the entire truck apart at least twice and the wiring harness was hand spliced end to end)


I look at my 15 year old color television set and see hard working americans tightening the last screws and wiping the screen free of fingerprints before boxing it up


I look at my IBM keyboard and remember when a computer weighed 85lbs and could be dropped off a building and still do its job after brushing it off


i look at my u.s military bags, flashlights and such from the 80s and remember when we made our own hardware to send our troops out with. Now we let the bad guys make our troops uniforms, and now our troops are being told to attack the very people they swore to protect.


i look at my sega dreamcast still sitting on TV and remember back when games were fun, they were not loaded with language and they had heart (and a good story to boot), i remember being excited when a hit game was announced for my system and reading magazines that actually had content instead of ads, instead everyone is excited over GTA 5 which manages to be a super smash hit with little to no merit, no good guys and horrible story

(the same can be said for breaking bad)


I remember my laserdisc player, and holding a 1 foot wide disc in my hands with awe and wonder, you really felt like you got your monies worth, 2 pounds of optical disc, huge colorful cover sleeves and a machine that sounded like the second coming of Christ when you switched it on


I remember back when a flush toilet was allowed to use the niagra falls to flush, you would grab that mighty handle with two hands and as the mighty maelstrom in the bowl started churning one could almost hear the sound score from 'the 10 commandments' as everything in the bathroom gravitated towards that swirling bowl of doom


just shows how pathetic things are when i can type up a 500 page memoir of how craptastic things are now.

Well i guess its time to finally let this thread pass on peacefully, the appropriate derge:

Not yet...not yet... ;)

OK OK Game on!

Good movie, excellent soundtrack

wow, only took them 7 years to publish this information.

Yeah sure....like you knew.

wow arnt we being presumptuous today?

Also 7 years ago would be 2006, and erm yeah even I knew they were a revolving door in 2006....sigh, the first wireless router came out in 1997 (no point in mentioning back doors on those, the security on those were equal to a wet hanky and it stayed that way until 2004 or so)

OK...OK...we all kinda "knew" these things were flawed (including the Linksys)....but it's another thing to act like you knew the whole score from A to Z.
You dig?

Sorry for jumping on ya.
Too much caffeine today.

:spaz:

things were better in the past...
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