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What happened to HN... A few years ago type of article wouldn't have even been acknowledged on this site. Forgive me if I am missing something here..

whycome 3y ago
It’s an interesting technical problem in a time before widespread internet. Something you can’t just put in a press release. Something you can’t describe. > Since, obviously, the symbol did not exist on a computer keyboard, Warner Bros. sent floppy discs to media outlets containing a digital rendition of the image, although most gradually landed on referring to him as “The Artist Formerly Known as Prince.” Television outlets were also provided with a brief video featuring the symbol, punctuated with an appropriately iconic-sounding digital clank, similar to the ones film companies used when their logos appeared in film credits.
archibaldJ 3y ago
As a researcher of LLMs and a student of semiotics, I find this piece to be cultural-politically interesting, especially from a socio-cybernetic perspective
code_duck 3y ago
This is about an intellectual property dispute, which seems fairly on point.
- morkalork 3y ago
  With an added dash of the hacker ethos of sticking it to "the man". In this case, the record labels.
DonHopkins 3y ago
It was a big deal at the time in 1993. Everybody in the music and multimedia and press industries received a copy of his floppy disk in the mail with his "Princely" font, with instructions on how and when to use it. And people on the cutting edge of digital technology could even download it from CompuServe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38964005 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38964005
boomboomsubban 3y ago
Prince's death was posted on HN and had basically the same criticism. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11543668 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11543668
thinkingemote 3y ago
Look at the evidence. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=prince%20symbol&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... Plenty of submissions and comments of this subject for several years. HN hasn't changed, we do.
eye-robot 3y ago
So, I ask an honest question and get downvoted (or stripped). Seems like HN people ARE getting worse, and way more petty. smh. Not all of us live in this zone and some of us do want to understand people's thinking without getting hated on. Guess I'll move on to a safer place.

whycome 3y ago

It’s an interesting technical problem in a time before widespread internet. Something you can’t just put in a press release. Something you can’t describe. > Since, obviously, the symbol did not exist on a computer keyboard, Warner Bros. sent floppy discs to media outlets containing a digital rendition of the image, although most gradually landed on referring to him as “The Artist Formerly Known as Prince.” Television outlets were also provided with a brief video featuring the symbol, punctuated with an appropriately iconic-sounding digital clank, similar to the ones film companies used when their logos appeared in film credits.

archibaldJ 3y ago

As a researcher of LLMs and a student of semiotics, I find this piece to be cultural-politically interesting, especially from a socio-cybernetic perspective

code_duck 3y ago

This is about an intellectual property dispute, which seems fairly on point.

morkalork 3y ago
With an added dash of the hacker ethos of sticking it to "the man". In this case, the record labels.

DonHopkins 3y ago

It was a big deal at the time in 1993. Everybody in the music and multimedia and press industries received a copy of his floppy disk in the mail with his "Princely" font, with instructions on how and when to use it. And people on the cutting edge of digital technology could even download it from CompuServe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38964005 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38964005

boomboomsubban 3y ago

Prince's death was posted on HN and had basically the same criticism. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11543668 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11543668

thinkingemote 3y ago

Look at the evidence. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=prince%20symbol&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... Plenty of submissions and comments of this subject for several years. HN hasn't changed, we do.

eye-robot 3y ago

So, I ask an honest question and get downvoted (or stripped). Seems like HN people ARE getting worse, and way more petty. smh. Not all of us live in this zone and some of us do want to understand people's thinking without getting hated on. Guess I'll move on to a safer place.