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> The original document file (I think - I can't test it) Interestingly, I can open this just fine in LibreOffice 5. The alignment is slightly off, but the graphics appear just fine.
It appears to be a "MacWrite II document" according to http://mark0.net/onlinetrid.aspx
> The original document file (I think - I can't test it) Interestingly, I can open this just fine in LibreOffice 5. The alignment is slightly off, but the graphics appear just fine.
Holy crap you're right. How'd you think to open it in libreoffice? I used file on it, and all it said was 'data'. Sure enough as soon as I changed it to .odt it opened up fine.
Because any excuse to post Mr Adams work is a good excuse, https://vimeo.com/72501076
Oh. My. God.
How did I not know about this? I have read everything Mr. Adams has published (I believe). Played a couple of his games. Listened to his radio output. Watched _that_ movie. But I did not know about this.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
I'm actually getting a bit emotional here. Bonus is that I'm super interested in the evolution of text from codex to semantic web (and beyond?) so both the purveyor of the content and the content itself interest me. That Ted Nelson, I tells ya.
Totally unrelated. One thing that the web could have had was _typed_ links. A number of people have made this observation but not many. The idea is built into the assumptions that gave birth to hypertext but the idea was never implemented. See here, for instance: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.22907/abstrac...
Because any excuse to post Mr Adams work is a good excuse, https://vimeo.com/72501076
Similar videos with good visions can be found from AT&T (the big old one), Microsoft and Apple - all from ca 1990.
Apple Knowledge Navigator TV advertisement (1987): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umJsITGzXd0
AT&T 1993 "You will" TV advertisement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZb0avfQme8 , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Will
"Information at your Fingertips" Microsoft presentation at COMDEX 1995: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XxeY-OchwY
"Microsoft Network" (MSN 1.0) TV advertisement (1995): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGYcNcFhctc&t=17m25s
Quoting, "Keywords are a common method of accessing data for which one does not have the exact coordinates. The usual problem with keywords, however, is that two people never chose the same keywords. The keywords then become useful only to people who already know the application well." Interesting that some problems have been known for so long, with no solution in sight. The whole article is super interesting in the…
Even such ontologies aren't entirely stable -- they change over time, and as with other bits of knowledge, reflect cultural fads and fashions. But I've been recommending to several systems (Pocket, Ello, blogging platforms) that a classification / tagging system based on these might actually be a fairly reasonable start, if only in that there's a very large, mostly-well-considered basis to start from.
Because any excuse to post Mr Adams work is a good excuse, https://vimeo.com/72501076
Frightening how much the Web 2016 resembles TV 1990.
What is it about ads, distraction, propaganda, and similar drek?
Because any excuse to post Mr Adams work is a good excuse, https://vimeo.com/72501076
Intersting how broad it was, some bits of "semantic web" in place. And at the same time, as described here, it's mostly multi user hypercard.
sign me the fuck up
Because any excuse to post Mr Adams work is a good excuse, https://vimeo.com/72501076
[9m05s in: pause] Oh. My. God. How did I not know about this? I have read everything Mr. Adams has published (I believe). Played a couple of his games. Listened to his radio output. Watched _that_ movie. But I did not know about this. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm actually getting a bit emotional here. Bonus is that I'm super interested in the evolution of text from codex to semantic web (and beyond…
Because any excuse to post Mr Adams work is a good excuse, https://vimeo.com/72501076
Excellent piece, worth its own post. Frightening how much the Web 2016 resembles TV 1990. What is it about ads, distraction, propaganda, and similar drek?