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Post by time0ut »

duxup wrote: post #46
donatj wrote: post #7

I was telling a friend recently about how there was this "golden age" when you could access all sorts of free APIs, and how I still long for this time. I remember the public Netflix API, Twitter APIs and Flickr API with particular fondness. My personal site was a big mashup of all of my data. I also abused the hell out of Yahoo Pipes - I would run RSS feeds through like 15 different languages with Babelfish before ba…

It reminds me distantly of an earlier time when just the web was sort of owned ... by the web folk. In the sense that even corporate sites if you found it would have a little corner where the 'webmaster' had a page that mentioned the server, or his cat, or some silly pic. Some sort of character or tidbit before any of the branding drones were really aware of the web. All just because the 'webmaster' was the only one…

I remember these days fondly. Surfing the web on 486 at 28.8kbps. it felt slow, but worth it. Most information to be found existed because someone thought it was worth sharing. A golden age to be sure.

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Post by wlll »

duxup wrote: post #46
donatj wrote: post #7

I was telling a friend recently about how there was this "golden age" when you could access all sorts of free APIs, and how I still long for this time. I remember the public Netflix API, Twitter APIs and Flickr API with particular fondness. My personal site was a big mashup of all of my data. I also abused the hell out of Yahoo Pipes - I would run RSS feeds through like 15 different languages with Babelfish before ba…

It reminds me distantly of an earlier time when just the web was sort of owned ... by the web folk. In the sense that even corporate sites if you found it would have a little corner where the 'webmaster' had a page that mentioned the server, or his cat, or some silly pic. Some sort of character or tidbit before any of the branding drones were really aware of the web. All just because the 'webmaster' was the only one…

> It reminds me distantly of an earlier time when just the web was sort of owned ... by the web folk.

I remember those times, I miss them. I had a modem back in the late 1990s and used to buy .net magazine (in the UK, back before there was a framework of the same name) on my way home from school and it had the number of people estimated to be on the Internet printed on the spine. It all seemed too good to be true, we were worried it might get shut down by governments. There was the TV program "the net" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Net_(British_TV_series)) that used to give you an "info dump" at the end that you were meant to record on your VCR and play back frame by frame.

In Jan 2000 I got my first proper job at a web hosting company and used to read Wired magazine before it became (as far as I recall) fascinated by the stock market.

I miss the optimism and simplicity of those times.

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Post by diggan »

kuu wrote: post #157
diggan wrote: post #82

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Instagram has one of the least interesting APIs of all popular services, with basically just 2 GET endpoints or something. So if you do want to build this, you're gonna have to do a lot of reverse-engineering of the smartphone application. Probably a fun project on just it's own.

You could automate something in their m.instagram.com site with selenium :)

Guessing they are redirecting to instagram.com based on user-agent or something, because I end up on the lame read-only desktop website. Does m.instagram.com allow you to post content and everything the mobile app allows you to do?

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Post by twic »

function_seven wrote: post #67
function_seven wrote: post #58

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> Kids these days will be lucky to remember their favorite mobile games. Let alone be able to play them. I'm already feeling the pain of this. There was a game for iOS called GeoDefense (and a sister game, GeoDefense Swarm). To this day these were my favorite games on the phone. But iOS 10 ended support for one of them, then a later OS update bricked the other one. The developer hasn't updated these games to work in…

Sorry for self-reply , but hopefully someone out there can point me to some similar tower-defense games? Everything I see on the app store now is bloated with graphics or IAP and shitty gameplay. If you're familiar with the GeoDefense games[0], you know what I'm talking about. [0] http://www.criticalthoughtgames.com/geodefense.html

It's not exactly tower defence, although i think it's close, but i am currently recovering from a pretty serious Bad North obsession:

https://www.badnorth.com/

You defend procedurally generated islands from viking hordes, but rather than towers, you use up to four squads of soldiers from an army you grow over dozens of islands. The art and sound design are lovely, and the gameplay is engrossing. Each island takes a few minutes to play, and a campaign lasts a few hours.

It's something like 5 dollars on iOS and Android, and has no ads or IAP.

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Post by streb-lo »

wlll wrote: post #162
duxup wrote: post #46

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It reminds me distantly of an earlier time when just the web was sort of owned ... by the web folk. In the sense that even corporate sites if you found it would have a little corner where the 'webmaster' had a page that mentioned the server, or his cat, or some silly pic. Some sort of character or tidbit before any of the branding drones were really aware of the web. All just because the 'webmaster' was the only one…

> It reminds me distantly of an earlier time when just the web was sort of owned ... by the web folk. I remember those times, I miss them. I had a modem back in the late 1990s and used to buy .net magazine (in the UK, back before there was a framework of the same name) on my way home from school and it had the number of people estimated to be on the Internet printed on the spine. It all seemed too good to be true, we…

> I miss the optimism and simplicity of those times.

It seems like every generation (minus those who came of age in WWI/II) think this is true for them.

Is it really true, or are we just all reflecting back to when we were younger and the world was simpler because we understood less.

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Post by wlll »

streb-lo wrote: post #166
wlll wrote: post #162

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> It reminds me distantly of an earlier time when just the web was sort of owned ... by the web folk. I remember those times, I miss them. I had a modem back in the late 1990s and used to buy .net magazine (in the UK, back before there was a framework of the same name) on my way home from school and it had the number of people estimated to be on the Internet printed on the spine. It all seemed too good to be true, we…

> I miss the optimism and simplicity of those times. It seems like every generation (minus those who came of age in WWI/II) think this is true for them. Is it really true, or are we just all reflecting back to when we were younger and the world was simpler because we understood less.

To be clear I was speaking specifically about the Internet/Web and not the world in general. I would say that there was a lot of optimism for the web back then, and it was definitely simpler.

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Post by solarkraft »

travisjungroth wrote: post #124
sneak wrote: post #117

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I think that thinking this way is a coping mechanism in response to the massive loss of control we experience being subject to the whims of giant corporate platforms deciding what we can and cannot run on our own devices. The alternative is to face how insanely unfair and belittling it is to have bought an app and a device and due to circumstances out of your control arbitrarily no longer be permitted to run “your” a…

You think that being aware of our own inevitable deaths, and the eventual end of the universe, is a coping mechanism to avoid the unbearable reality of closed software platforms? Am I talking to Richard Stallman?

You never know.

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Post by nayuki »

Speaking of the YouTube view count, Tom Scott also did a great explanation on distributed computing and eventual consistency: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY_2gElt3SA "Why Computers Can't Count Sometimes"

And here's a video from Computerphile about overflow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA0Rl6Ne5C8 "How Gangnam Style Broke YouTube"

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Post by flingo »

mauricedenassau wrote: post #129
mattl wrote: post #125

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I used to beg people I met online to host pages for me, give me shell access, etc. I was a child in the very early 90s with basically no money.

It's not very common, but I had people begging my friends for this kind of services.

raspberrry pi in home-network DMZ, with fail2ban, unattended-upgrades, and a free dynamic DNS service gets you most of this. (plus, you're root, so you can run things more complicated than web-services)
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