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Archiving "The Famous Computer Cafe"

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Re: Archiving "The Famous Computer Cafe"

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On a slightly unrelated note, why is that webpage so slow to load? I'm used to the wayback machine being slow, thats fair enough, but their blog?

I've not seen images load a couple columns at a time in quite a while.

Re: Archiving "The Famous Computer Cafe"

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Post by a1o »

Ciantic wrote: post #3

I started to listen to Bill Gates' interview [1], just to hear what he had in mind back then. Sounded almost topical in today's world. AI was mentioned, and predicting users' input in the distant future. Side note, archive.org has two players. The first one doesn't have a timestamp where you currently are. The second player, the Winamp clone does have it, but I don't think one can link to specific parts. [1] The Bill…

> The second player, the Winamp clone

Wait, what the Winamp clone?

Clicks link

This is beautiful, thank you for this!

Re: Archiving "The Famous Computer Cafe"

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Post by mananaysiempre »

a1o wrote: post #12
Ciantic wrote: post #3

I started to listen to Bill Gates' interview [1], just to hear what he had in mind back then. Sounded almost topical in today's world. AI was mentioned, and predicting users' input in the distant future. Side note, archive.org has two players. The first one doesn't have a timestamp where you currently are. The second player, the Winamp clone does have it, but I don't think one can link to specific parts. [1] The Bill…

> The second player, the Winamp clone Wait, what the Winamp clone? Clicks link This is beautiful, thank you for this!

A standalone project, incidentally: https://webamp.org/

Re: Archiving "The Famous Computer Cafe"

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Post by breadsniffer01 »

dudeinjapan wrote: post #5

Timothy Leary said PCs are the LSD of the 1990s. If that’s true, then AI is definitely the LSD of the 2020s.

Tweeted this in 2021: “The current state of artificial intelligence is on psychedelics and we are simply trying to sober it up.”

Src: https://x.com/miguelace_/status/1362646383077978115?s=46&t=g...

Re: Archiving "The Famous Computer Cafe"

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Post by samstave »

a1o wrote: post #12
Ciantic wrote: post #3

I started to listen to Bill Gates' interview [1], just to hear what he had in mind back then. Sounded almost topical in today's world. AI was mentioned, and predicting users' input in the distant future. Side note, archive.org has two players. The first one doesn't have a timestamp where you currently are. The second player, the Winamp clone does have it, but I don't think one can link to specific parts. [1] The Bill…

> The second player, the Winamp clone Wait, what the Winamp clone? Clicks link This is beautiful, thank you for this!

Wow!

And you can move and resize the widgets! https://i.imgur.com/PmXmpVO.png

I wonder if we can get an MPV skin of Winamp

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41277014

This is a great interview with Gates. The interviewer is great too, great commentary and questions.

"A machine on every desktop ad a machine in every home - and one of the things that will enable us to do that is graphics"

(and he mentions how great the Macintosh was doing in the graphics area)

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Crazy the things that have been going on with him lately - and what was said by Thiel about him on JRE, yet HN seems to want to not discuss any of it...

(This 1984 interview with gates deserves its own HN post. The commercials on it are great as well. And the fact that the interviewer brought up Aritficial Intelligence is great - and Gates' response was very cogent of the state of AI and the path forward. Where he says "people worry about AI taking over" - and says when "we can make software fully soft, we can get machines to help us"

Great piece of history, that.

Re: Archiving "The Famous Computer Cafe"

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Post by erickhill »

samstave wrote: post #15
a1o wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The second player, the Winamp clone Wait, what the Winamp clone? Clicks link This is beautiful, thank you for this!

Wow! And you can move and resize the widgets! https://i.imgur.com/PmXmpVO.png I wonder if we can get an MPV skin of Winamp https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41277014 This is a great interview with Gates. The interviewer is great too, great commentary and questions. "A machine on every desktop ad a machine in every home - and one of the things that will enable us to do that is graphics" (and he mentions how great t…

If you click the little icon in the upper-left corner of the UI, you can change 'skins' as well. Very cool
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