Old habits to new innovations..

Old habits die hard, but new one's in the computer world don't have to be like that.

We've all come from somewhere, for some of us people are just now figuring out that rotary phones existed. We use to have do incredible things in the beginning of our collective innovations' journey. Surprisingly phones over the wire are still very much needed today as they're reliable, and the copper wire the baud signals travel through are mostly underground, but other than the lady at the desk at the reception you're at, you know the ordeal with the cellular tele-phones. That's 'tele' as in 'tegraph' where they use to make certain beeps to write you messages over long distances. Super glad that habit died hard.

From the AOL Chatrooms and Usenet systems computing is still pretty much the same. Things in tech tend to come full circle in some areas, some stay the same, but some really bring things together.

Take a look at oldschool emojis and expressions (^<_^) and see where you may stand reading this xD xD, try sending these to your friends in place of the emojis, stickers, and whatever else crazy stuff that's going on in our 500 messengers' messages. For me, I get people that ask me why I text like that.

Ultimately it's because I'm tired of being replied to with two laughing-crying faces, and a part of me is just hanging on to it out of habit, even though the emojis are pretty awesome. I have to admit.

Everybody's there...

From MySpace to Facebook, to Discord and Twitter; we'e certain on many things that our digital identities may forecast a real world horizon for ourselves, and in that belief; it kind of seems like everybody is too afraid to push the boundaries in innovation; so many cool things and yet everybody's hooked on the ones desynergizing us from 'what can be' in terms of what's poppin' in today's culture.

Musk just paid out $44bn for Twitter and I've seen many decent, and better alternatives in the FOSS and small projects scene; platforms made the way they should have, but never taking off; and that's because the old habits die hard when everybody is use to how and where they communicate.

For Facebook, there's minds.com which is free and open source.

For Twitter, there's Mastodon (a federated, decentralized Twitter) Notes: Decentralized means it runs independently of any control to shut it down.

Just the way of the maze...

Whatever communities you may use, be sure to encourage others to develop and find humor in things, as we've all witnessed $500+ million being made off a monkey picture, and millionaires being born from Dogecoin. The rewards truly are for everybody in the hackspace world!

That little cool project that you forgot about and left alone; probably out of habit of just never nursing your projects... that's probably the next game changer is all I'm trying to tell you.

The coolest thing we have in the community scene right now is Hacker News and Reddit with the fancy votes and 'award' systems to trigger people's dopamine.

Whether it be shyness, laziness, exhaustion, you should most definitely make those projects come to life.

For myself, I've always liked making things that bring people together, and I think surely we can all agree that we enjoy making things that we love and others can love too, just remember.... Musk coded paypal, Shopify was originally a skateboarding website, Amazon was a garage bookstore.

Let some new habits of innovation shine light in the scene; be sure to keep close eyes on the emerging technologies of every day use, you'd be ecstatic seeing your dream project come to  life!