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This is valuable work in cataloging the foundations of the computing industry! It's weird to see times one has lived through presented as ancient history....
Glad that the information was preserved in the magazines, usenet messages and just text files. That will not happen with the modern web software, the internet is the dark ages of our time. All those Java,Flash amazing pieces of software and the stories of their creators will be gone long before the internet dies from LLM slop.
I think of all the content we've lost already. MySpace files are lost. Friendster archives are gone. So many YouTube videos lost to time.
I checked the TIFF talk page and found comments from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Scarlsen Turns out the answer was on Wikipedia already :).
>Yes it is true: the second word of a TIFF file, 42, was indeed taken from the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything, from Hitchhikers_guide_to_the_galaxy. StephenECarlsen 23:38, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
The article is great but the web site is supposedly related to a book "inventing the future".. which is nowhere to be found. Other than a big, slowly loading graphic, 3 posts and indexes for the book... the site doesn't provide a clue about where to acquire the actual (PDF only?) book.
I assume you have to sign up to find out more ?
On the web I can only find articles about the book.
So.. what is the deal in making the actual book hard to find ?
Edit: I think I cracked the code: Click Home, Open "Close Your Rings" article, scroll all the way down, find link: https://books.by/john-buck?ref=inventingthefuture.ghost.io
I checked the TIFF talk page and found comments from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Scarlsen Turns out the answer was on Wikipedia already :).
If anyone can contact John Buck this sounds like information he'd be interested in. Also an interesting avenue for future investigative work.
Beautiful and moving. Thank you author of the article and thank you Mr TIFF
Am I missing something ? The article is great but the web site is supposedly related to a book "inventing the future".. which is nowhere to be found. Other than a big, slowly loading graphic, 3 posts and indexes for the book... the site doesn't provide a clue about where to acquire the actual (PDF only?) book. I assume you have to sign up to find out more ? On the web I can only find articles about the book. So.. wha…
Crazy this information would have probably been lost in time if one single person on this planet didn’t give a shit like the rest of us. What a journey and congratulations to SC (don't want to spoil it) on your 15 minutes and rightful restoration as inventor of TIFF, take your place in history.