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I am reminded of the last track on Information Society's[1] 1992 album "Peace and Love, Inc.", which was a recording of a 300 baud modem encoding an ASCII text message[2]. Their debut album, "Information Society"[3], used the somewhat obscure "CD+G" format, which included graphics that could be displayed by compatible players. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Society_(band) [2] http://www.textfiles.com/h…
After the introduction, all that hard work is finally rewarded with some scrolling text and a seemingly random arrangement of bloops and bleeps.
I remember listening to OK Computer some years ago and I must have been studying or something or other and the track "Fitter Happier" came on. Those familiar know how it goes, the Stephen Hawking voice droning on about all these ideals worth pursuing ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HimvFbossU8 ). I sat back half listening that evening and this funny response came out in my head, where I responded to the monotone na…
Oddly enough, Thom Yorke insists the album wasn't about the tedium of the modern world, or the perils of advanced technology, but actually how much he hates traveling [1] [1] http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/exclusive-thom-yo...
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Fellow ST user here! .prg was the most common extension but .app was certainly used in some cases. I think it denoted a different format.
Weren't .prgs the actual "foreground"-programs while .apps were the small helper tools that ran in the background and stayed resident even if not in focus? I distantly remember some apps getting a spot in the menu bar... (It's been ages since I touched that system, good times, though.)
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Everything is an "app" now. For me it sounds cheaper, somehow trivializing the work of many.
Yes, it definitely has a connotation of commoditization.
We didn't have "apps" in the 80's we had "programs".
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/net.micro.mac/1CVsNTbXA6g/tS... From: t-jacobs@utah-cs.UUCP (Tony Jacobs) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: MultiMac MULTITASKING! Date: Thu, 21-Nov-85 12:12:47 EST ... It doesn't work with some programs (like MacPaint) and some apps need to be the first app loaded to work (like MacDraw.) When you run multiple sound apps the first one run is the one that works, the rest will run but y…
That's cool, I still have my old Spectrum at home, but I would need to find a cassette player for it, but I assume they've started making those again.
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"App" significantly predates the iPhone. Binary/warez sites regularly used "apps" as a shorthand, NeXTSTEP used .app before Apple bought it...heck, Apple called an early Mac development framework "MacApp". We've been calling applications "apps" for going on thirty years at a minimum.
Mobiles pre-smartphone boasted of their 'Java App Library', too. I don't know anyone who used one deliberately though, with the slow and extortionately priced data of the time.
Pretty sad they're calling this an "app". If it's dated to 1996, clearly it's a "program"!
"Application" was around way earlier, as shorthand for "application program" (to be distinguished from "utility program", and, possibly, "game") For examples look at the search hits in https://archive.org/stream/1981-03-compute-magazine/Compute_... . I wouldn't call this an application, though. "App" is completely wrong, as it was introduced by Apple for user-facing programs running on a mobile phone (if Android had…
As others have pointed out, it was also used as the file extension for "application programs" on NeXTStep (.app). It continued to OS X which is where "App" came from for iOS applications. It has nothing to do with the name "Apple".