Soft Detours ↯ Kyra Ocean

SOFT MEMORY ❯ I would always leave this demoscene animation/song looping on my bedroom PC in 1995. (Ambience by Tran • 1994)

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I often get asked about what should be preserved from today's Internet. I lean towards something omnivorous and there are numerous groups (Internet Archive, Archive Team, Rhizome) capturing what they can. It's a loaded question that affects all of us [and how our history is perceived after we're gone]—Jenna Wortham does an excellent job of digging in.

Read more at Stories of Apple →

A perfect, minute-long survey of 1980s/90s computer animation created by Brummbaer for SIGGRAPH '95.

Ever modest with regard to the magic that he spins, Brummbaer says that his philosophy of creativity stems from his notion that an artist is but a humble window washer. His computer screen, he claims, is simply a window that allows him to see through into other worlds, and all he does is polish the screen so that we can see through to the other side.

Selected illustrations from the Silicon Graphics TechPubs Library (1995-2000).

22 years, 2 months, 2 days, and 2 hours later: Apple IIGS System 6.0.2 has been released.  This update is thrilling not only for adding functionality to an ancient operating system but also because it’s authors (rumored to be European) are uncredited and working in secret.

…here was my living room in April, 1978 (photo by Doug Fowley for my Byte magazine article about polyphonic keyboard interface design). So many memories in this photo, including hours of cranking out graphics with the period in that Diablo daisy wheel printer, the acoustic coupler, my trusty HP-35, a homebrew memory-mapped S100 display for the Z-2D, external sockets for the Bytesaver, the trusty Advent cassette deck, a Hazeltine monitor that cost more than current laptops, and that lovely Tek 465 scope with the DM43 on top. Good times!

Read the The Spreadsheet Way of Knowledge (1984) →

For Life Sharing we turned our private lives into a public artwork. We made each and every file on our computer, from texts and photos to bank statements and emails, available to anyone at any time through our website. Anything on our computer was available to search, read and freely copy, including the system itself, since we were using only free software.

Paul Ford, Networks Without Networks (2014)

Beyond Cyberpunk! was divided into four zones: Manifestos, Media, Street Tech, and Cyberculture. Each zone contained essays, reviews, artwork, animations, and sounds. There were over 600 “cards,” over 300 articles, 122 different sound clips, 19 animations, and 35 text pop-ups. There was also a glossary with vocal pronunciations, and a 1000-word hyperlinked index.

From Machine Studies by Sarah Caluag (2014)

These recognitions were regarded as welcomed honors, visually stamped on the distinguished site with a graphical status icon that bestowed a mark of “quality.” Accumulate enough of these accolades and new awards.html pages would be erected to showcase the entire collection.

John Pound started his code cartooning journey in the late ’80s by teaching himself PostScript, an Adobe-made programming language used for commercial printing. He coaxed it to draw some rudimentary scenes. They were just a few shapes against a horizon line at that point, but the artist found the results fascinating nonetheless.

Computer Virus Catalog curated by Bas Van De Poel (2014–). Artist interpretations of the greatest viruses from computer history.