I’d say most albums are a collection of the songs the band picked out to make it and then arranged in a way that fit the medium back in the day and feels like it makes sense.

OP and others here in the comments are reading way too much into that they have become accustomed to how one song follows another. It’s not like most bands play concerts in the album order either.

Personally I liked making mix tapes for myself from vinyl to listen to individual songs in new orders and I really liked when CDs were introduced and you could play shuffle and bring attention to every song as it was a little surprise every time.

That said, I’m glad you’ve found attentive listening to music, OP. Keep listening to full albums if this helps you do it.

Yep. I remember moving from the C128 to the Amiga and go ooh.

Still cool that OP is coding their own BASIC interpreter though.

They were introduced and installed and became common and at some point declared regional standards at the time when there were no standards at all. You’d visit your local shop and buy your four lamps in your entire lifetime with a plug that fits the socket and you’d be happy that you have this new electricity thing in your house. There would be no reason for anybody to be interested in what the sockets and the plugs look like in the neighbouring country, not to mention some far away land.

Existence is a fluke in the eternal ocean of time. None of us were here for at least one eternity. Now we are. Then we will be not again for at least one another eternity. Not being is more natural than being.

My accent smells of roses and wool socks

They have a nose for it

Well, you are free to declare your own flavour and try get it supported by whatever editors and libraries you use. Damn, you can make up your own format that works in any particular way you want to. I bet in this time and age you could vibe code it with functions to your heart’s desire.

But bitching about it to people that are trying to be helpful and explain why it is like it is will not render much other result than said people dropping you into their blocklist for being annoying.

Because it is how the format is defined. There is nothing to fix. You write text in paragraphs by default and if you want it to be displayed in any other way you need to declare it. Most formatting is done before the text, like headings and lists, but this newline without a new paragraph is declared with two trailing spaces.

Oh you kids and your modern ways. By dial-up modem and terminal software. Each BBS had their own number to call.

And UseNet and IRC and FidoNet and file retrival by email and whatnot.

The web makes it easier and more accessible for the general public. Not to mention prettier than a green on green terminal.

Thanks!

Starting in around 2004, a new wave of implementations centered on manual tagging of files and folders.

Wow, this was about the time I came up with the idea. Then again it was the time of blogs and tag clouds, so…

I’ve talked before about my old idea about a tag based file system but it is purely theoretical yet afaik. Basically it is an object database where it doesn’t matter how you order the relevant tags. /a/b/file and /b/a/file are the same thing.

Back in ancient times when libraries were the natural source of information, a friend had recently learned about The Illuminati and taken it at face value. I’d already dipped my toes in conspiracies and counter culture and I had read The Illuminatus Trilogy and more but I joined him on a visit to the largest city library.

The librarian was amused by my friends request on books about the Illuminati and grew quite engaged trying to find some rare material for him. Then he struck gold with an old book about the Bavarian Illuminati and the supposed continuation in the shadows. He tried to order it from storage, then went “hmm that’s strange” and went on a journey to locate it through the systems and looked honestly dumbstruck and had to announce that it didn’t exist anywhere.

I made spooky noises at my friend’s when we left.

TL;dr OP, Now you too are on the list.

IKEA Kallax with a combination of insets of drawers and doors and boxes that fit my particular needs. They are cheap and easy to assemble and weigh next to nothing because they are made of some kind of pressed cardboard material but they still look quite all right.

Are we open for rotation? Cucumber in Swedish is “gurka”, while in Norwegian it’s “agurk”.

The human monkey is easy to spot from its belief that it is not a monkey nor even an animal.

No problem, main character.

Dude, nobody owes you anything for free. Back in the days before internet piracy cost postage and floppies and video cassettes and dual tape decks and sneakers, not to mention making and maintaining contacts. Quit fucking whining for having everything effortlessly at your fingertips.

Are they peas though?

Get a NAS or use any old computer you can get for cheap and upgrade as you go. Hook it up with a network cable to your router so it doesn’t hog your WiFi bandwidth.