5 ms·

Because any excuse to post Mr Adams work is a good excuse, https://vimeo.com/72501076 https://vimeo.com/72501076

• igravious 10y ago
  [9m05s in: pause] Oh. My. God. How did I not know about this? I have read everything Mr. Adams has published (I believe). Played a couple of his games. Listened to his radio output. Watched _that_ movie. But I did not know about this. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm actually getting a bit emotional here. Bonus is that I'm super interested in the evolution of text from codex to semantic web (and beyond?) so both the purveyor of the content and the content itself interest me. That Ted Nelson, I tells ya. Totally unrelated. One thing that the web could have had was _typed_ links. A number of people have made this observation but not many. The idea is built into the assumptions that gave birth to hypertext but the idea was never implemented. See here, for instance: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.22907/abstract http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.22907/abstrac...
  • tudorw 10y ago
    Thank you for your thank you, so glad I could share this to someone like you, Ted, indeed, nuff said...
• frik 10y ago
  Interesting historic piece. the TV movie is called Hyperland (1990): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0188677/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0188677/ Similar videos with good visions can be found from AT&T (the big old one), Microsoft and Apple - all from ca 1990. Apple Knowledge Navigator TV advertisement (1987): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umJsITGzXd0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umJsITGzXd0 AT&T 1993 "You will" TV advertisement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZb0avfQme8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZb0avfQme8 , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Will https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Will "Information at your Fingertips" Microsoft presentation at COMDEX 1995: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XxeY-OchwY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XxeY-OchwY "Microsoft Network" (MSN 1.0) TV advertisement (1995): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGYcNcFhctc&t=17m25s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGYcNcFhctc&t=17m25s
• dredmorbius 10y ago
  Excellent piece, worth its own post. Frightening how much the Web 2016 resembles TV 1990. What is it about ads, distraction, propaganda, and similar drek?
  • tudorw 10y ago
    early days, alpha net is a better name than the internet :)
• Chinjut 10y ago
  In case it's not obvious to anyone else, the referenced "Mr Adams" is Douglas Adams (of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", etc., fame).