Empathy with machinery, particularly computers...

[Dark Dick]

https://thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumb...6797915136

Retro Desktop.

[Dark Dick]

https://thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumb...3096914944

[Mister Obvious]

It looks like the computer emblem says "WANG".

[Dark Dick]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Laboratories

LOL. You're right.

[Mister Obvious]

Now that is fucking iconic.

[Luscious Atanari]

I got an Atari 400 "PC" for my birthday in late November of 1979, and at that time it was literally new to the world, and an uncle of mine walked in on me while I was wrapping my arms around the keyboard on my little desk and slow-kissing the glass of the tiny TV it was connected to, getting it all wet. He turned around immediately and called out to my Mom in a concerned voice. I don't remember what happened next, but they would have had to pry that out of my dead fingers to get it away from me.

I was truly in love with it. I spent hours copying code for games from the book that came with it, and then I would slowly break each game after bored with it, changing miniscule bits of code here and there, but not so that the game would stop running, just tinkering enough to watch the game warp into something else, and sometimes it would get REALLY weird (and awesome). I spent far more time on THAT game then the games themselves.

[Mister Obvious]

Love for technology is innate within humanity, and I think it's because our DNA remembers past civilizations with advanced tech. We've been doing this for God only knows how long... we eventually lose it all every time and have to start over again.

[Luscious Atanari]

Love for technology is innate within humanity, and I think it's because our DNA remembers past civilizations with advanced tech. We've been doing this for God only knows how long... we eventually lose it all every time and have to start over again.

It takes about 40,000 years for a city like Manhattan to weather into jungle. People say plastics are forever, but I don’t think we have enough time to understand the half-life of plastic, maybe this is the first iteration of plastic. Given that human beings—exactly as we are—have existed for around 300,000 years, as far as we know, there could’ve been an Einstein 300,000 years ago, there may have been multiple advanced civilizations to completely come and go with small pockets of reset humans surviving each time.