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That would be good to see for people who are interested in Babbages designs etc.
“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
Edited by Time_Traveller, 19 April 2012 - 02:38 PM.
“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
Nope, never was really instant Also, keep in mind that back then, if you connected to something via dial-up, you were paying by the minute, especially if you were connecting to one of the big networks such as Compuserve and AOL, especially if you didn't have a local number to call and had to pay long-distance fees. It was all done via front-end client software and browsers didn't even exist then. Speeds were slow and slower. Connections were never always-on like they are today with cable.
Here's another video along the same lines:
Notice how they simply say Internet?
Edited by Dead Redshirt, 09 March 2013 - 11:31 PM.
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world. - Jack Layton - 1950 - 2011
Any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.* - A. Clarke
Any magic sufficiently analyzed is indistinguishable from technology.** - Somewhere from Internet
*Relatively, comparing to rest of world. Go back in time with modern tech. **Lets assume its working only in fantasy/simulated world. Go forward in time with unicorns.
Amazing how far computers have come. If they continue at this exponential improvement rate i can't wait to see what we have in 30 years time again. That said, lets just hope our software design can keep up with the power, or else its going to be a little useless, if the videogame industry is anything to go by then it will struggle and hit a point where its too costly to develop anything that can take advantage of the full amount of power in decent machines, which is a huge shame. Thanks capitalism once more.
Looking at this on my iPad, I find it incredible just how much computers have changed in just 36 years. The 20th century has to have been the most innovative century ever, just look at the year 1900 and compare it with 1999 in terms of technology, politics and everything else. So much changed, it's almost unbelieveable that it all happened in one century.
Of course, This because we're moving in to the age of Aquarius which represent global brotherhood, Electronics, Intelligence, and Space travel. We were previously in the era pisces which was extremely spiritual and religion-oriented.
This era will be when mankind finally leaves the rock and explores the vast cosmos.
Amazing how far computers have come. If they continue at this exponential improvement rate i can't wait to see what we have in 30 years time again. That said, lets just hope our software design can keep up with the power, or else its going to be a little useless, if the videogame industry is anything to go by then it will struggle and hit a point where its too costly to develop anything that can take advantage of the full amount of power in decent machines, which is a huge shame. Thanks capitalism once more.
Isn't capitalism the driver behind the development of such tech? People that wanted to make a buck was the drive.
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