Motivations
Motivations
Motivations
Some reasons people engage in retrocomputing.
- Luddism
- Elitism
- Escapism
- Honing otherwise dormant programming skills (current job not using them)
- Denial (would prefer new systems augment old ones rather than replace)
- nostalgia (there's a reason that word rhymes with neuralgia and others):
- recapturing lost youth
- doing something we're good at
(implying that we're not as good at the stuff we do today)
- unfinished business
- something to prove
- displace current opportunities/responsibilites with something more pleasant
- historical preservation
- aesthetics (desire to have that elegant architecture accessible again)
- we like it, it's fun/enjoyable, no way to explain or figure out why