https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictures_for_Sad_Children
In some ways “outdated”, too edgy, but in some details maybe even more relevant today than it originally was.
(1/3 of humanity having no electricity is a bit exaggerated, in 2000 it was 1/5.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictures_for_Sad_Children
In some ways “outdated”, too edgy, but in some details maybe even more relevant today than it originally was.
(1/3 of humanity having no electricity is a bit exaggerated, in 2000 it was 1/5.)
I do find the reactions interesting, including the negative. The comics by this author were pretty popular, running from 2007 to 2014, but today they do strike an odd note in some regards (as I already anticipated in my description; perhaps that’s why the author nuked her site). Techbro wasn’t a term at the time yet, so ‘nerd’ it was. And I do have the impression nerdiness was more consumerist at the time…
Yeah while I’m sure there were plenty of nerds rocking old Thinkpads at the time too, I don’t think the counterculture of resisting new tech hype was quite at the swell it is now. In 2010 fighting over Android vs iOS and whether the new HTC phone was gonna be an iPhone killer was a pretty big part of “nerd” culture. In some ways I’m not sure that’s changed, other than perhaps the type of devices we lust over being different. (The Steam Deck is totally gonna kill Windows guys!)