Archiving "The Famous Computer Cafe"(blog.archive.org) |
Archiving "The Famous Computer Cafe"(blog.archive.org) |
1. https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php?q=creator%3A%22The+Fa...
Side note, archive.org has two players. The first one doesn't have a timestamp where you currently are. The second player, the Winamp clone does have it, but I don't think one can link to specific parts.
[1] The Bill Gates interview starts at 10:10 https://archive.org/details/the-famous-computer-cafe-1984-11...
Wait, what the Winamp clone?
Clicks link
This is beautiful, thank you for this!
And you can move and resize the widgets! https://i.imgur.com/PmXmpVO.png
I wonder if we can get an MPV skin of Winamp
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41277014
This is a great interview with Gates. The interviewer is great too, great commentary and questions.
"A machine on every desktop ad a machine in every home - and one of the things that will enable us to do that is graphics"
(and he mentions how great the Macintosh was doing in the graphics area)
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Crazy the things that have been going on with him lately - and what was said by Thiel about him on JRE, yet HN seems to want to not discuss any of it...
(This 1984 interview with gates deserves its own HN post. The commercials on it are great as well. And the fact that the interviewer brought up Aritficial Intelligence is great - and Gates' response was very cogent of the state of AI and the path forward. Where he says "people worry about AI taking over" - and says when "we can make software fully soft, we can get machines to help us"
Great piece of history, that.
That's some interesting people listed.
Here's the actual archive as a note to myself to listen to it later today: https://archive.org/details/famous-computer-cafe
[1] at 24:00 mark https://archive.org/details/the-famous-computer-cafe-1985-07...
Took 4 years to find the final scret cheat code in Nier Automata
https://x.com/NieRGame/status/1345725199900155909
And that's just one modern game example, there are many more
What kind of database could one access from a PC in 1985 from which one could learn about saltwqter crocodiles?
Src: https://x.com/miguelace_/status/1362646383077978115?s=46&t=g...
I've not seen images load a couple columns at a time in quite a while.
Roughly speaking: prior to the 80's one (often) wrote their own programs, prior to the 90's one entered their own data (i.e. for structured content like databases and spreadsheets), prior to the 00's one created their own content (i.e. documents etc.)
Once knowledge moved to the online world, it was inevitable that debate would follow. This cat is not going back in the bag. We might refine our tools a little bit, but things are unlikely to change significantly for a very long time - possibly ever.
Yes, agreed. This is called "addiction".
[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen_Wake...
[2] https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp
[3] https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1097/keep-awake/
[4] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.muellerma.coffee/
