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Please don't leave a Commodore 64 out in the middle of a field for who knows how many decades. But if you find one that was, please don't write it off as beyond hope, either. youtu.be/wVphFkaX1gg

A point & click graphical user interface is not automatically better than the command line interface. 

I counted & timed each at my fastest, most mistake-free.

A mistake on the CLI just needs me to use the backspace key until the wrong letters are deleted.

A mistake in the GUI means taking time to recognize that the wrong GUI choices are up, to understand why or what I mis-clicked on, to remember how to back up, & to decide whether to back up or cancel & start over.

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A point & click graphical user interface is not automatically better than the command line interface. 

I'm using a tool with both, but although I have to type up to 60 characters in the CLI, it takes only 5-10 seconds, & my fingers never have to leave the keyboard.

With the GUI to do the same thing, I needed to click on 34 things, each appearing in a different place I had to point at first, take my hands off the mouse to type 4 characters, then put my hand back on the mouse, taking 40-55 seconds.

When you're browsing on Firefox and you accident open in a new window instead of a new tab.

As far as I'm concerned, "Space: 1999" jumped the shark with the very first episode of season 2. Well, YouTube suggested a season 2 episode (s2e8, specifically), this image was the thumbnail, & my first thought was "evil Burger King on the Moon."

If only Star Wars was released 2 years earlier, the "Space: 1999" creators might've called the series "Death Star Trek" instead.

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"Look, he's headed for that small moon!"
"That's no moon, th- Wait, that's Earth's moon! He's headed for Moonbase Alpha!"
Space Wars: 1999

Personally, I believe that "gender reveal" parties are BS, if nothing else then for being held between five & 50 years too early.

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A forgotten masterpiece of a music video, now 38 years old and having aged magnificently, "Can You Feel It" by the Jackson 5: youtube.com/watch?v=9nP4WE_-uq

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