<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>el_benhameen</author><text>The first computer shop that I went to as a kid (back when computer shops were a thing) had a very distinct smell that still evokes very strong memories for me now. I guess it probably wasn’t the computers themselves, but maybe that foamed rubber material used for mousepads and such, plus maybe some static charge in the air from CRTs or something? Any time I catch that smell, I’m immediately back playing Loom and Monkey Island and oogling at Pentiums and 1 GB hard drives.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nmeagent</author><text>This article immediately brought to mind a particular conversation in season one of Buffy the Vampire Slayer...&lt;p&gt;Jenny: &amp;quot;Honestly, what is it about them that bothers you so much?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Giles: &amp;quot;The smell.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Jenny: &amp;quot;Computers don&amp;#x27;t smell, Rupert.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Giles: &amp;quot;I know. Smell is the most powerful trigger to the memory there is. A certain flower, or a a whiff of smoke can bring up experiences long forgotten. Books smell musty and-and-and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer is a - it, uh, it has no no texture, no-no context. It&amp;#x27;s-it&amp;#x27;s there and then it&amp;#x27;s gone. If it&amp;#x27;s to last, then-then the getting of knowledge should be, uh, tangible, it should be, um, smelly.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why do old books smell so good?</title><url>https://scienceswitch.com/2023/08/19/why-do-old-books-smell-so-good/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thret</author><text>It reminded me of a similar sentiment by Marcel Proust:&lt;p&gt;“So we don&amp;#x27;t believe that life is beautiful because we don&amp;#x27;t recall it but if we get a whiff of a long-forgotten smell we are suddenly intoxicated and similarly we think we no longer love the dead because we don&amp;#x27;t remember them but if by chance we come across an old glove we burst into tears.”</text><parent_chain><item><author>nmeagent</author><text>This article immediately brought to mind a particular conversation in season one of Buffy the Vampire Slayer...&lt;p&gt;Jenny: &amp;quot;Honestly, what is it about them that bothers you so much?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Giles: &amp;quot;The smell.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Jenny: &amp;quot;Computers don&amp;#x27;t smell, Rupert.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Giles: &amp;quot;I know. Smell is the most powerful trigger to the memory there is. A certain flower, or a a whiff of smoke can bring up experiences long forgotten. Books smell musty and-and-and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer is a - it, uh, it has no no texture, no-no context. It&amp;#x27;s-it&amp;#x27;s there and then it&amp;#x27;s gone. If it&amp;#x27;s to last, then-then the getting of knowledge should be, uh, tangible, it should be, um, smelly.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why do old books smell so good?</title><url>https://scienceswitch.com/2023/08/19/why-do-old-books-smell-so-good/</url></story>