I was talking to a friend who was thinking about the internet we want to have, decentralized, less silos, a bit like the nineties where it was possible to have static pages, host email, write your own CGI scripts, and it was all step by step easy and possible if that was what you wanted. And we got talking about the kind of things we need to today to get this back. Do you have reading suggestions? Blogs to read? Projects? People to follow?
Teenagers these days grow up with a phone instead of MSDOS or a C64 and how will they ever learn to tinker? How can we transition from play to programming, allowing people to create their own games, like in the old days you could play on a MUD or MUSH (I liked MUSHes better!) and from text adventure to community to programming it had everything. And I want the same thing for the web and messaging. People writing bots. People writing CGI scripts or whatever. I want it all! I want it now!
@kensanata I think the opportunites are still out there. With cheap Android phones or arduinos and raspis you got both the software and hardware side covered. I'm more the SW person, but I know people who tinkered with the arduino a lot. I guess it comes down to your own curiosity and commitment of how much you wanna do.
@Nuntius I see a few people at the office interested in arduinos, or making modules for modular synthesizers and the like. It’s much rarer than C64s when I was young though, and it seems to be the same people and not their kids? But perhaps that’s my selection bias of course.