Music

Agora há pouco começou a tocar Even Flow. Na hora fui parar em 1994.

Naquela época eu passava boa parte das madrugadas conectado em BBS. Computador ligado, modem fazendo barulho, a Transamérica FM tocando no fundo, e eu esperando alguma coisa interessante acontecer.

Hoje qualquer pessoa abre o Spotify, digita “90’s Grunge” e em poucos segundos já tem Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Alice in Chains, tudo ali. Em 1994 não tinha isso. Você dependia da rádio.

Even Flow just started playing. It took me straight back to 1994.

Back then I spent a good part of my nights connected to BBSes. Computer on, modem making noise, Transamérica FM playing in the background, and me waiting for something interesting to happen.

Today anyone opens Spotify, types “90’s Grunge” and within seconds has Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Alice in Chains, all right there. In 1994 there was none of that. You depended on the radio.

Last weekend, I was coding when a song from one of my Apple Music playlists started playing: Boat Gig by the band Tribal Tech (highly recommended if you’re not familiar with it).

As the music played and I continued coding and learning to work with AI, a sort of movie ran through my mind—reflecting on where we’ve come from (at least since I hopped on the boat) in the tech world, and where we are today.