I downloaded the audio and converted it to .wav. Made it mono, extracted the end, and saved as unsigned 8bits PCM. Now trying to figure out what the hell to do with it! Any pointers appreciated :)
It’s like your first day of calculus and the instructor talking about the final exam saying, yes it’s extremely simple. Yes, of course, after you learn everything and do it daily, yes, then it’s simple.
This exemplifies why some technologists failed. They’re “simple” once you get the pattern down, but it’s hard for anyone unfamiliar.
Funny. I started at UCI in 1985 where they gave every student an email. 36 years later, the same exact email address still works. In fact, I think 1984 was one of the first years that email addresses standardized on the "natural" format everyone sees and uses today. We used the MH mail system that was developed at RAND and later adopted as an open source project there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MH_Message_Handling_System
I just finished reading the book "The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal". Very highly recommended for anyone interested in the early days of computing and the internet and the people that helped make it happen.
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I've recently been watching Look Around You and I have to assume that season 2 was directly inspired by this clip, the similarity is uncanny.
An example: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7t2yhw
plugs around various cables, switches on things, logs on, starts rotating dial and anxiously looks at camera
"So it's a very simple connection to make"
"Extremely simple"
This exemplifies why some technologists failed. They’re “simple” once you get the pattern down, but it’s hard for anyone unfamiliar.
I actually spent some time yesterday pushing buttons and sending emails, in a language that's as old as the video.
https://github.com/codr7/emash
I actually used to use to dial the x.25 service to login from home using a portable terminal - no screen just paper.
It dates (1960s, 1970s) even before the Licklider book I think. Read the blurb, sounds amazing the things they had back then.