The mother of all demos
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The mother of all demos
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#3I landed there too after a couple of hours surfing prompted by the Newsweek article.
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#4Do not use url shorterners.
Do not create a linkbaiting title.
That said, the demo by Doug Engelbart from 1968 (which is what you should have used as a title) is very impressive. I saw it ten years ago in my human-computer interaction course, and everyone was completely blown away by it then, and it's still very impressive.
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#5Do not use url shorterners. Do not create a linkbaiting title. That said, the demo by Doug Engelbart from 1968 (which is what you should have used as a title) is very impressive. I saw it ten years ago in my human-computer interaction course, and everyone was completely blown away by it then, and it's still very impressive.
You mean on HN because we won't see the domain next to the link?
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#6Do not use url shorterners. Do not create a linkbaiting title. That said, the demo by Doug Engelbart from 1968 (which is what you should have used as a title) is very impressive. I saw it ten years ago in my human-computer interaction course, and everyone was completely blown away by it then, and it's still very impressive.
"The mother of all demos" was used for this particular demo by Douglas Crockford in one of his public lectures about Javascript, http://yuiblog.com/crockford/. I also recommend watching that, btw.
Besides the fact that this title is catchy - what's wrong with that? - it also tells more about the content than "the demo by Doug Engelbart from 1968". Surprisingly, not that many people know or care who Doug Engelbart is.
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#7Do not use url shorterners. Do not create a linkbaiting title. That said, the demo by Doug Engelbart from 1968 (which is what you should have used as a title) is very impressive. I saw it ten years ago in my human-computer interaction course, and everyone was completely blown away by it then, and it's still very impressive.
You mean on HN because we won't see the domain next to the link?
url shorteners are banned on news.yc. i expect pg will eventually get around to banning this one as well, once he's aware of it.
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#8Do not use url shorterners. Do not create a linkbaiting title. That said, the demo by Doug Engelbart from 1968 (which is what you should have used as a title) is very impressive. I saw it ten years ago in my human-computer interaction course, and everyone was completely blown away by it then, and it's still very impressive.
"The mother of all demos" was used for this particular demo by Douglas Crockford in one of his public lectures about Javascript, http://yuiblog.com/crockford/ . I also recommend watching that, btw. Besides the fact that this title is catchy - what's wrong with that? - it also tells more about the content than "the demo by Doug Engelbart from 1968". Surprisingly, not that many people know or care who Doug Engelbart is…
It always has been called "the mother of all demos": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos :)
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
"The mother of all demos" was used for this particular demo by Douglas Crockford in one of his public lectures about Javascript, http://yuiblog.com/crockford/ . I also recommend watching that, btw. Besides the fact that this title is catchy - what's wrong with that? - it also tells more about the content than "the demo by Doug Engelbart from 1968". Surprisingly, not that many people know or care who Doug Engelbart is…
It always has been called "the mother of all demos": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos :)
good to know :)
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#10Interesting fact: apparently the video was shot by Stewart Brand, who crops up at a surprisingly large number of other key points in the history of computer science (he created the Well, a highly influential early online community, and has some involvement with the founding of the Homebrew Computer Club which gave birth to Apple, among other things). These days he's running the Long Now Foundation. My girlfriend and I are convinced he's a time traveller from the future.