We are in danger of losing our past in almost every aspect of human knowledge and practice. It isn't enough just to preserve books. We need living practitioners of older ways of thinking and doing. We need to carve out spaces for the continuance of archaic practice at a more human scale.

There is a lot of "maker" interest around Retrocomputing and the revivification and modernization of past computing paradigms.

As much as there has been a "back to the land" and "simple living" movement, this concept describes a return to unencumbered technology scaled to independent creation, ownership, and use by discrete humans, rather than groups or corporations.

It is also a descriptor used when someone (like JasonNemrow) is far more interested in exploring abandoned technologies of the past rather than using the "current hip thing" that won techno-battles. For instance, was Betamax technically better than VHS, that likely won the video tape war for being less legally encumbered?

doing tech for money ruins the joy of it as a hobby (which is where I tried to keep it when I was young).

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