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In the secret hideaway of the PEOPLE'S FRONT AGAINST RETROGRADE DEVELOPMENT
25 years of technical development are nothing else but 25 years of retrograde steps!
Look at this BigBoard II from 1985...
Power consumption 50 watts, booting time 6 seconds, phantastic!
And idle noise 0 sone!
Perfect sound insolation Heat pipes
No! In those days they were able to produce components which did not need any cooling fans!
And you was able to exchange damaged components yourself.
But the manufacturer made everything small and difficult in order to force us always to buy a new mainboard.
We are incapacitated and enslaved!
I don't see any mouse.
Right! Nobody needed them. If your arm hurted, you had a tennis arm. Today, we call it mouse arm.
It went this far that computers are making us sick!
We have to stop this undesired development and turn it back.
The loud fans grate on our nerves, we have mouse arms and...
we suffer from viruses and trojans!
And not just we, also our children and our children's children.
And our children's children's children
Yeah
And our children's children's children's children
All right, that's enough. And what have we received in return?
DVD burners
What?
DVD burners
Oh. Yeah yeah, we did receive them, that's true
And color graphics
Oh yeah, color graphics. Remember how everything was displayed only monochromatically?
Yeah, all right, I'll grant you DVD burners and color graphics are two things that we got.
And the nice c't!
Well, yeah. Obviously the c't. The c't goes without saying, doesn't it?
But apart from the color graphics, the DVD burners and the c't...
Fast processors Fast fixed discs
Yeah, yeah. All right. That should be mentioned.
And the internet!
Yeah, that's something we'd really miss, if we wouldn't have it anymore.
MP3 players
And computer aided design!
Yeah... we don't want to talk about how we had to draw everything by hand in the past
All right, but apart from color graphics, fast processors and fixed disks, the internet, CAD, DVD burners, MP3 players and the c't...
I ask you, what have we ever received from 25 years of development?
Blue light-emitting diodes
Ah! Blue light-emitting diodes... shut up!
OK, so I will do.
In German: shut up = keep the flap clapperboard = flap