The Computer Chronicles - The Internet (1993)

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kristopolous · 2023-07 · Reference

Watching old videos from the time like the Computer Chronicles, I'm pretty surprised how many people were running OpenStep on Intel hardware. It seems like it really made a dent for a year or two there. Check out the b roll around 5:43 [VIDEO] And here you can clearly see the login screen on a likely Intel multi core machine, probably from Everex or NCR a similar company [VIDEO] It's on the right hand side right before they cut it I've started to notice it a bunch in the 1993/94 timeframe. I had no idea. Next I'm going to find a bunch of people using A/UX and BeBoxes. My old bank, Washington Mutual, was using OS/2 until like 2003 ... Why not?

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mellow2020 · 2020-04 · Reference

And this is a quote from Howard Rheingold: > You have to remember that in democratic societies citizens talking with each other is very important. We've lost a lot of that with the mass media. Now we have an opportunity for citizens to create their own communications with each other. So when these big deals with the big companies and the big governments carve up this new territory, I feel it's very important that we keep a kind of "social green belt", that we keep the ability for citizens to talk amongst each other. -- "The Computer Chronicles - The Internet (1993)" [VIDEO]

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PavlovsCat · 2019-12 · Reference

I'd say a post-truth world wouldn't be a world at all so to speak, because if everybody lives in their own filter bubble, with no access to a common world, the public sphere, where humans can have experiences and communicate, ceases to exist. > You have to remember that in democratic societies citizens talking with each other is very important. We've lost a lot of that with the mass media. Now we have an opportunity for citizens to create their own communications with each other. So when these big deals with the big companies and the big governments carve up this new territory, I feel it's very important that we keep a kind of "social green belt", that we keep the ability for citizens to talk amongst each other. -- Howard Rheingold, [VIDEO] > If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history. On the receiving end you get not only one lie — a lie which you could go on for the rest of your days — but you get a great number of lies, depending on how the political wind blows. And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please. -- Hannah Arendt, Interview with Roger Errera (1974) [LINK]

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