“Our modern machines feel too much like the anonymous, minimalist interior of a business hotel. Small wonder, then, that we yearn for the soulful log cabins of yore.”
– Swedish software developer and blogger Carl Svensson, on the lost pleasures of “cosy” home computing—the sublime resistance of a power button, the satisfying ‘clonk’ when a drive accepts a disk, the warm glow of a CRT electron beam. “Heck, these days most of us aren’t even treated to the subtle ‘click’ of plugging in an 8P8C Ethernet connector.”
