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well, if you want to get pedantic, the image referenced by the html in the background window is a png file--png's I belive came out in the late 90's. And the i
by abruzzi 4y ago
well, if you want to get pedantic, the image referenced by the html in the background window is a png file--png's I belive came out in the late 90's. And the image name clearly references "weyland" the linux windowing system that came out way later than that.
I also remember the dicsussion in the movie at the time going on about georeferencing. Not saying that concept wasn't out there at the time, but it would have been miles from a 15 year old's fingertips.
- bee_rider 4y agoThe X replacement is Wayland. Weyland is the company in Alien. Although it looks like Weyland in the Aliens franchise isn’t founded until 2012 so I guess there isn’t any crossover potential there. It is probably just an in-joke.
- prpl 4y agoalso https
- martyvis 4y agoWell yeah, and while the original article does reference the HTML, it in itself wasn't defined by TBL until 1993.
- cesaref 4y agoAmiga programming was all 68k + lattice C if you were really looking to the future (with K&R syntax), BBSs accessed via 1200 baud modems, and music trackers.
- mnd999 4y agoI was mainly active towards the latter end but Matt Dillon (of DragonflyBSD fame)’s DICE C compiler was my tool of choice. I thought it was pretty nice.
- icedchai 4y agoYes! I taught myself C on Lattice C (later SAS/C) on an A500 with 3 megs of RAM and a 30 meg drive. That was a killer system back in 1990. I had a 2400 baud modem at the time, later upgraded to 9600 and felt like king of the nerds.