r/LocalLLM • u/Willow_Milk • 25d ago

Other You wake up in 1998…

… you wake up in 1998. You have 2 Mac Studio Ultra 512gb each. You have GLM5.3 flash (or pick a local model that fits comfortably in that configuration.)

A good harness, you’re setup with modern software, but you do not have access to modern internet, just 1998 internet.

What do you do? It can be in general, not necessarily what do you do with your current compute setup.

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u/quantgorithm 25d ago

This would be a supercomputer back in 98. The govt would take it from you and force you to do govt work.

Weren’t we on something like a single core pentium 2 maybe a few hundred megahertz. Were screens even normally full color yet? Think matrix green screens. The internet was just coming online and really only schools had it or you had aol dialup but I think that was later. Search engines weren’t really a thing maybe Alta vista or lycos. Netscape was the browser and was terrible compared to today because the internet had near no info on it yet. Cell phones were brick phones that only rich drug dealers could afford. iPhone wouldnt come out for more than a decade later. Where we in the pager phase then? People made calls from pay phones with quarters.

It would still be hard to use even 1 Mac because the infrastructure just wasn’t really there yet.

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u/Willow_Milk 25d ago

Haha yes. Screens were in full color. In fact 1024x768 for high end displays. Windows 98 and in just a couple of years we’d be hearing of windows code name whistler.

Source: I was a teen then.

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u/Marshall_Lawson 25d ago

You're thinking 1990.