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This is a cloud computing version of the venerable BBC Micro. You tweet to the bot a fragment of BBC Basic and it responds with an animated GIF of the screen 20 seconds in to your program. Check out is timeline to see some really impressively concise graphics demos.
- BBC Micro bot
Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 11 months ago.
Samuel R. Delaney's on-point 1977 review of Star Wars. (Via Lee Brimmicombe-Wood on FaceBook.)

(Via Samuel Delany's 1977 Star Wars review: why is the future so damned white and male?)
- kaninchenzero: gwillow: samueldelany: Samuel Delany reviews the first Star Wars movie, 1977, in Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy. “The PC police are ruining SF/F! We need to go back to the good ole days!” Here is Samuel R. Delany reviewing Star Wars Episode IV–and critiquing it for its lack of women and POC characters. In 1977. You’re very welcome. (His response to the old “It’s just entertainment!” chestnut? Muting half of humanity is not entertaining.) This, right here, is how it is possible to love something–as Delany clearly loved Star Wars–yet recognize its flaws and discuss them in an intelligent, productive way. “Star Wars, as far as I can tell, has no story at all” god bless you, chip delany
Noted by Damian Cugley 6 years, 3 months ago.
Twitter thread of old-timey computers with absurdly small screens back when screens were impressively expensive.
- Marcin Wichary on Twitter “Hello, stranger. I’m glad you decided to join me on this impromptu tour of a somewhat forgotten era of computing: the time when Screens Were Expensive – and so computers had no choice but to use smaller screens, small screens, and even ridiculously tiny screens. Shall we…?”
Noted by Damian Cugley 6 years, 4 months ago.
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Remember the hardware virus spread through meeting-room DVI cables?

(Via Marcin Wichary on Twitter)
- The meeting room hardware virus
Noted by Damian Cugley 6 years, 6 months ago.
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