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Episode 95
So far I've strayed away from hypermedia in my larger hypertext coverage. This episode helps to fix that. Today we are looking at Aspen Movie Map, a…
3 years, 9 months ago
Robots, and the End of Humanity
Episode 94
Robots have always fascinated and horrified humanity in equal measure. The prospect of a synthetic lifeform is at times exciting, but can quickly tu…
3 years, 10 months ago
Fun and (Horror) Games
Episode 93
Anybody up for a fright? This episode we are looking at 3 of the earliest horror video games I can find. Over this journey we will look at different…
3 years, 10 months ago
Copy Protection
Episode 92
It's Spook Month 2022! To kick things off we are diving into the frustrating depth of copy protection, piracy, and the origins of commercial softwar…
3 years, 11 months ago
Whirlwind
Episode 91
Whirlwind represents a fascinating story of transition. The project started in the middle of the 1940s as an analog machine. As times changed it bec…
3 years, 11 months ago
Where Did The S100 Bus Go?
Episode 90
In the last half of the 70s there was one gold standard in home computing: S100. This was a standardized bus that was the heart of many computers. I…
4 years ago
Forth
Episode 89
What language has two stacks? What language is used on satellites and in home computers? What language deals in words? Why, Forth, of course! Fort…
4 years ago
BEFLIX, Early Computer Anumation
Episode 88
Digital animation has really become an artform in and of itself. In the current epoch these animations play out on fancy bitmapped displays, but it's…
4 years ago
The ILLIAC Suite
Episode 87
Can a computer be creative? Can we program a machine to make art? It turns out the answer is yes, and it doesn't even take artificial intelligence. …
4 years, 1 month ago
Fluidic Computing
Episode 86
What is a computer? A miserable pile of electrons!
But... not necessarily. I have yet to find a fully satisfying definition for "computer" that encom…
4 years, 1 month ago