Vintage textbook figure: remote login is a lot like astral projection
miniapeur · x · 2026-11-13
A vintage computing textbook's Figure 7.1 illustrates remote login as a soul leaving one body and drifting through a cloud into another computer, captioned "Remote login is a lot like astral projection" — a perfectly apt 1990s metaphor for what we now call SSH and remote desktop.
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