The most epic of multiposts ever!!! Heheh, I'm looking for a suitable place to put mine as well!
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Nice, put it up in your room or something. ;)
Too many of them. Stupid submit button hahaha
No worries, it's only 8. :P
Nice! You should put it on your room. Or something.
Haha
Nice! You should put it on your room. Or something.
I will :D
Damnit! Foiled by the blasted submit button.
Hmm, since you didn't post 8 comments in a row it's gotta be unintentional. ;)
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Getting back to an earlier question.. Yeah, the internet wasn't publicly accessible until the late 1980's, however, in the 6th grade, our Chinese teacher, who made sure we had some early TRS-80's to futz around on, mentioned in very hushed tones, that there was this network of computers linked over phone lines, " Darpa Net" was one of the names I remember. Hope she wasn't a spy, but her and her husband, saw the writing on the wall back then.
Here it is... almost thought I was going Ice King crazy there for a moment <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darpanet">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darpanet</a> Oh, and I ran into this guy <a href="http://hamnisu.newgrounds.com/">http://hamnisu.newgrounds.com/</a> in the Portal.
Hmm, that makes me think of the Darma Initiative in Lost. Completely irrelevant. Hey, a Swede the same age, thanks for the notice! :)
nah, the internet was public in the early 80s (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol _suite</a>). In fact it's not like it was hidden since its inception either, it was just mainly used for government and computer science purposes.
It seems like it wasn't made accessible to the larger public until 1989 though, when the TCP/IP protocol was implemented in Unix. I recall reading somewhere that it was mainly used by the US military before that, but maybe that was misleading info. :/
Monkey is right, I guess you could say that a really basic form of information sharing was in development when Sputnik was launched.
October 4, 1957? That's got to be something radio-based. :/
Huh, all interesting things :) My bro and sis built a radio crystal set to listent ot he beeps from Sputnik... didn't stay in orbit long, and was easily visible (prolly due to a low orbit).
When my teacher mentioned it in 1981-2 or so, she mentioned there was issues with availability, where times for connections were scheduled. I wrote a story called Logon (had to ask her the term for starting a text to person conversation) that year... my character told someone that a bully was going to hurt this girl I liked for liking me. God, how weird is that to type... now.. in the 21st century?
That was a long time ago! Must be a big age difference between you and your siblings then, if you're 40 that's like... 20 years?! I thought the ten year gaps in my family were abnormally long.. guess not! Here's some Spitnik beeping btw: http://youtu.be/lPFKd5p_t0s
Sounds better than I thought it would, not at all as aggravatingly sharp as old modems. :)
I don't know, would it be weird? All communications seem distant nowadays, even the remote is close.
Wow, cool analog tones bro, thx! Yeah, it's an 18 year gap... I was the 'happy surprise', though everyone kinda freaked, because even then, women usually never had children, that late in life.
I'm constantly in future shock :P
Sounds from ancient civilization. :) According to Google, childbirth late in life may result in a longer life. Hmm. My parents are both 70 y/o right now and in good health, seems to be working...
You've tried the new electronically shocking reaction games then? :P
Imagine what the future will have in store in terms of technology.
I'm imagining artificial lakes on Mars...
Imagine what the future will have in store in terms of technology.
I'm imagining a camera for smells...
I couldn't find the very old SNL skit that preceded this one (which had a Ms. Pac-Man game with an electric shock that goes though the joystick) but this should pique your interest.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=112A8lSd0iM">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=112A8lSd0iM</a>
Plant life gave us the info we needed to create compressed video... the best tech is right outside, we just need the right kind of eyes to see how we can use it.
Ideogram addiction at it's prime. :) Looks like a YT channel full of old gems, thanks for that!
Plant life gave us the info we needed to create compressed video??
technology still hasn't found a way to prevent double posting i see..
Ironically, technology created the double posting error. :/
\/ That's funny, because I caught Tom double posting on someones blog recently... he apologized and said the usual, "That's something we gotta fix!" His genuine devotion to this site is what got me to sign up.
Indeed, this place thrives off both dedicated staff and users. Most of the staff is composed of dedicated users too so that's a working combo. ^ sounds like a screenshot worthy occasion! Post post link?
O_O I saw that, like, just before Easter... was too many clicks ago, but I'll keep my eyes open.
In fact, right before last years redesign, I caught Tom commenting on some lowly users post, just before the lights went out
You see a lot of interesting things! :O
Oh.... and the plant propagation algorithm, that was even further back. JakBaronKing might've turned me onto something over a year ago.. found this old crusty video.... AH.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCayOX-ZMMA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCayOX-ZMMA</a> part of a bigger series, from 1980 :) Watch from 7 minutes into it, and you'll avoid a minute or two of trippy fractals
I had an app to save videos from YouTube, and that was one I had gotten. Even though the size was very reasonable, my HD is limited.
When the first equation popped up I didn't think I'd be getting much of what they were saying, but it was surprisingly understandable. Interesting. No time to watch through the whole clip right now but that's definitely an interesting chunk of knowledge. It's strange how all the solutions exist in nature, and still humans keep trying to pave their own way, make synthetic alternatives for substances that can be found in plants, create reactors to harvest energy even though nature already built the greatest one outside our planet, a few million miles away where it's not so potentially harmful. Nature is the greatest science of all, yet science keeps fighting nature, in traditional - modern medecine, diet... everything. :/
I used to save YT videos with the ANT Video Downloader plugin for FireFox, until I was made aware they actually harvested user data. Haven't needed to download anything lately but there are plenty of useful plugins like it... that don't harvest user data... I hope. :/ How limited HD do you have? No external drives?
I just have to burn some disks with what's left of my gear. Should really get a new DVD drive and flash card, to clear up the clutter. Haven't bought anything new since 2007 :\ The only way I can get internet, is thru an 11 y/o Dell laptop, with 512 MB of memory.
Why? The built in wifi G card is the only way I can get the signal from next door 300 feet/ 90+ meters away... and even then, I have a 1 meter piece of very wrinkled aluminum foil, shaped semi toroidaly, and placed directly behind the laptop, to capture and bounce the signal onto the motherboard itself (which I can't sit in front of)... and the LCD ballast is broke so image is half a meter way on a working monitor :|
Oh.. thought I got rid of this. New shape does way better, and the wrinkles really do a good job - no hot spots that way. <a href="http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/150003c4d4256780ec9c35b8d4129fa6">http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/150003c4d4 256780ec9c35b8d4129fa6</a>
At first I thought that was a cat perched upon the screen! The picture was playing tricks on my mind... so, I guess the laptop funnels all traffic through that other computer in the background? Or is the laptop directly plugged into screen/keyboard/etc? Really oldskool setup! I currently have a monitor with two different computers plugged into it, one 32-Bit Win XP and one 64-Bit Win 7. The former to play old games, the newer to do everything else. I haven't played any old games in months now, but... theoretically it's a useful solution. :)
It's really worth getting an external drive instead of burning DVDs btw. I used to store leftover content on CD/DVDs but I've been progressively transferring all the content back to external drives. I now have a bag full of maybe 2-300 burned DVDs I'm pondering throwing away, but that seems like such a waste. Some of the data had already started corrupting too, they aren't very reliable storage forms, not to mention low on memory. Don't know how pricing is in the US but here you'll get a 2TB HD for external storage at a price equal to 2350MB worth of DVD (500) storage. Considering the benefit of storing everything on the same place, accessing it at higher speeds, being able to modify contents and easily getting a backup drive the price is definitely worth the 350MB sacrifice.
Btw, are those two clock-like devices clocks?
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Nice, put it up in your room or something.
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