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Before Computers, People Programmed Looms
- cafard 12y agoHow much of the HN crowd is this news for?
- Suitperpower 12y agoI feel it helps show the web and computation as an invention sewn into the fabric of consciousness somewhat before it was "Faster Than Thought." A significant factor of programming communities is a dominant hierarchy narrative for said superior technological mechanics that are imagined and featured to be so new and original (said mature and advanced), when I find we have the technology but we're still looming. It is an important statement, is many ways of historical significance tieing to how a system grew by caring for meticulous threading, which being conscious of can help us tell the story we need to understand our information work, and how it links together.
- contingencies 12y agoInteresting but I prefer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_loom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_loom
- beachstartup 12y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwozgRPLVC8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwozgRPLVC8 this is a great video. it isn't working, but the concept is clear after watching.