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Quote from: Brehvolution on January 22, 2018, 03:10:32 PM
https://imgur.com/gallery/vPhzN
That is some horrifying shit as the landing image, but I LOLsnorted at "Stuckie."

If the contest had been held 15 years later, it would have been Doggie McDogface.

Atramental · « **Reply #33491 on:** January 23, 2018, 11:56:29 AM »

toku · « **Reply #33492 on:** January 23, 2018, 01:44:02 PM »

https://twitter.com/jennaaclaire/status/955567098901786624

D3RANG3D · « **Reply #33493 on:** January 23, 2018, 02:50:55 PM »

https://twitter.com/zboah/status/955657918828961793

chronovore · « **Reply #33494 on:** January 23, 2018, 06:04:05 PM »

Quote from: Joe Molotov on January 23, 2018, 10:19:13 AM

Quote from: chronovore on January 22, 2018, 07:01:38 PM
Quote from: Brehvolution on January 22, 2018, 03:10:32 PM
https://imgur.com/gallery/vPhzN
That is some horrifying shit as the landing image, but I LOLsnorted at "Stuckie."

If the contest had been held 15 years later, it would have been Doggie McDogface.

Nope:

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Stuckie McStuckface

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Valkyrie · « **Reply #33495 on:** January 23, 2018, 07:00:26 PM »

Rufus · « **Reply #33496 on:** January 23, 2018, 07:19:15 PM »

chronovore · « **Reply #33497 on:** January 24, 2018, 08:55:12 AM »

Brehvolution · « **Reply #33498 on:** January 24, 2018, 09:19:52 AM »

Quote from: doctavius bonbon on January 23, 2018, 02:20:37 AM

The enchantress, magneto, or transformers?

Brehvolution · « **Reply #33499 on:** January 24, 2018, 01:52:36 PM »

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #33500 on:** January 24, 2018, 02:00:39 PM »

https://gfycat.com/ExaltedPlainBrahmancow

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #33501 on:** January 24, 2018, 02:01:57 PM »

https://i.imgur.com/hMiv44S.gifv

Brehvolution · « **Reply #33502 on:** January 24, 2018, 03:00:40 PM »

ToxicAdam · « **Reply #33503 on:** January 24, 2018, 03:36:24 PM »

Nerds that gain notoriety/power and do whatever they can to preserve it has always been fascinating to me.

zomgee · « **Reply #33504 on:** January 24, 2018, 04:22:33 PM »

Quote from: ToxicAdam on January 24, 2018, 03:36:24 PM

Nerds that gain notoriety/power and do whatever they can to preserve it has always been fascinating to me.

I've been following this for a while too. It's all fascinating. Being an arcade/pinball collector has really opened my eyes to a lot of this: these people are all selfish children.

I worry about the teens and twentysomethings who do this near professionally. What will they do when their reflexes are shot?

Additionally TwinGalaxies can go to hell.

zomgee · « **Reply #33505 on:** January 24, 2018, 04:24:23 PM »

toku · « **Reply #33506 on:** January 24, 2018, 04:24:43 PM »

https://twitter.com/mijukusdreamer/status/955881319732563969

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #33507 on:** January 24, 2018, 04:25:08 PM »

Another Kickstarter masterpiece:

Brehvolution · « **Reply #33508 on:** January 24, 2018, 04:28:00 PM »

Brehvolution · « **Reply #33509 on:** January 24, 2018, 04:44:51 PM »

VomKriege · « **Reply #33510 on:** January 24, 2018, 08:56:52 PM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on January 24, 2018, 04:25:08 PM

Another Kickstarter masterpiece:

I've been offered just that... 20 years ago. Except it looks like a VW van.
#latestagecapitalismthread

shosta · « **Reply #33511 on:** January 25, 2018, 02:36:27 AM »

Neat little interview with Ted Nelson, inventor of hypertext. It's only 3 minutes but I transcribed it anyway in case you read faster.

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When we look at the past of computerdom, it’s through a lens which is very peculiar because things have changed so much, so fast. To me, those fifty years that I’ve been in the computer field have gone so quickly that the past seems ever present. In the 60s and 70s, a lot of young people started communes, and it was a combination of free love - which is a term you don’t hear anymore because we take it for granted - and pot, and LSD, and idealism, and hopes for a new kind of economy, and that spirit of that age leaked into the computer world.

There was a sense of possibility in the beginning that is different because we thought that computing would be artisinal. We did not imagine great monopolies… we thought the citizen programmer would be the leader. When I say we, I mean I, but of course I had a sense I was sharing this with a lot of people. The visions of democratization, of citizen participation, created vistas of possibility for artistic expression and artistic expression in software. And software is an art form, though not generally recognized as such. And because of Moore’s Law - which had been stated to me not as Moore’s Law, but just as a general principle, things were going to get faster and cheaper - we will be able to afford it. Right now, a computer with a screen is $35,000, tomorrow, who knows, it’ll be a $100, something. So now is the time to start thinking about what would be the documents of the future.

As I would abstract it now, the two concepts were: we can have parallel connections between visible documents. So you can have two pages with a connection saying, “this sentence is connected to that paragraph,” and so there’s a visible strap or bridge, and you can’t do that yet. So that was one of my hypertext concepts. And the other hypertext concept was to be able to click on something, and jump to it. So as the hypertext concept developed - and deteriorated - over the years, only the jump link became popular in the hypertext systems in the 60s and 70s. And then Tim Berners Lee created the World Wide Web… which was the sixth or seventh hypertext system on the internet. People think it sprang from (unintelligible, please help) but it was just a clean job that had the clout of CERN behind it.

How to see the possibilities when there are so many things around you that are in a certain way… I don’t know. The future is an unknown place, and there are a lot of scary things about it. And what aspects you’re going to approach, whether you’re going to go on thinking about leisure, or about the terrible problems that confront the world, all I can say is: close your eyes. And think what might be. My first software designs were largely done with my eyes closed, thinking, “Now if I hit that key, what should happen, if I hit this key, what should happen.” I was able to imagine - they say this can’t be done - but when my interfaces were built, they always felt the way I knew they would. And the people at Xerox PARC said, “That’s never possible, you never know how it’s going to feel.” But I did.