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“Houston, We've Had a Problem” (1975)
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Re: “Houston, We've Had a Problem” (1975)
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
> "when people didn't know better" My god, what do you think 2001 was, the stone age?
When i hear "the startup bubble of 2001", I always take a moment to imagine what was a startup in 2001. I imagine an HTML 2 page with no Javascript and an ad banner at the top, inlined styles and tags... Like Altavista or Yahoo. So in truth, what were webpages before 2006?
Enter your favorite web sites URL at the Way Back Internet Archive: https://archive.org/web/
There were different web design trends, from my subjective perspective:
* 1991-1995 the early web with all sort of experiments,
* 1995-2000 What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get era 8Frontpage/Dreamweaver/GoLive/etc) with Frames and Table-based layout and quite interesting design decisions, Java-applets, every website looked different often with very nice artworks and designs
* 2000-2005 no frames more CSS less graphical too much content on each page, Flash and various other embedded plugins, XML and XHTML 1 were hot
* 2005-2010 usage of AJAX, upcoming JSON
* 2010-today leaner design, less is more, inspired by the Google startpage and styled after recent operating system themes from iOS/Windows8/Android5, HTML5, JS5, CSS3, heavy usage of AJAX on some sites (one page apps), responsive design (work on different screen resolutions)
The web design was most colorful and interesting in the early days til about 2000. Then came the more boring years with cooperate designs and pages with too much content stuffed on one page. It got a lot more interesting from the design point of view though some of the flat-designs mean developer-art which isn't everyone likes.
Re: “Houston, We've Had a Problem” (1975)
#23Although 13 was quite a near-disaster, I'm surprised that there isn't just as much attention to how much 11 very nearly was a disaster too. During 11's descent to the moon the LEM's computer was overloaded and started throwing alarms. In addition Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin realized the craft overshot its intended landing spot and was heading for a field of rocks and boulders where landing would be impossible. Wha…
"Without Neil Armstrong Apollo 11 very likely would have ended with Richard Nixon reading this somber message to a devastated nation"
That's why they put him in that position and not your regular Joe Average (not to downplay the capabilities of other members of the space program)
Yeah, maybe the safe thing was to abort the landing. But you're already 300 thousand kms from home, your safety margin is already very small.
Re: “Houston, We've Had a Problem” (1975)
#24Although 13 was quite a near-disaster, I'm surprised that there isn't just as much attention to how much 11 very nearly was a disaster too. During 11's descent to the moon the LEM's computer was overloaded and started throwing alarms. In addition Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin realized the craft overshot its intended landing spot and was heading for a field of rocks and boulders where landing would be impossible. Wha…
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Re: “Houston, We've Had a Problem” (1975)
#25I was honored to have dinner with Ken Mattingly a couple of years ago, and am looking forward to meeting Jim Lovell later this year. I've now met and talked with five Apollo era astronauts, and they are genuinely amazing. True gentlemen with wonderful stories, and self-deprecating. All amazingly skillful with hundreds of thousands of hours of technical training. And all different in their own way - all individuals. A…
"And Houston, as I step off at the surface at Taurus- Littrow, I'd like to dedicate the first step of Apollo 17 to all those who made it possible." - Gene Cernan
Re: “Houston, We've Had a Problem” (1975)
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
> "when people didn't know better" My god, what do you think 2001 was, the stone age?
When i hear "the startup bubble of 2001", I always take a moment to imagine what was a startup in 2001. I imagine an HTML 2 page with no Javascript and an ad banner at the top, inlined styles and tags... Like Altavista or Yahoo. So in truth, what were webpages before 2006?
I worked at a startup in 1997/1998 to write a turn-key intranet application for bioinformatics search and analysis services. It had interfaces for people and for machines. It wasn't internet based because it dealt with potentially proprietary data, which customers didn't want out on the public network.
It was a bunch of CGI scripts in Perl behind httpd, and some command-line executables. I rolled my own template language for it ("mhtml" for "macro html"). We had never heard of using a database for the web, and so it tracked no user information outside of simple logging. It used a couple of lines of Javascript - my first in shipping code - but no CSS. I didn't use CSS until 2000.
Re: “Houston, We've Had a Problem” (1975)
#27There's a very nicely presented transcript of this mission (and others) on spacelog.
Re: “Houston, We've Had a Problem” (1975)
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
When i hear "the startup bubble of 2001", I always take a moment to imagine what was a startup in 2001. I imagine an HTML 2 page with no Javascript and an ad banner at the top, inlined styles and tags... Like Altavista or Yahoo. So in truth, what were webpages before 2006?
My site is still pretty much as I originally had it in the mid to late 1990s: http://www.solipsys.co.uk Didn't know better then, don't know better now. Still prefer content over style.
http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/DistanceToTheMoon.html
OK, I'm intrigued and will be thinking about that one when I'm getting my students into their exam on Monday...
1992 style. See html comments for the reasons...
Re: “Houston, We've Had a Problem” (1975)
#29I was honored to have dinner with Ken Mattingly a couple of years ago, and am looking forward to meeting Jim Lovell later this year. I've now met and talked with five Apollo era astronauts, and they are genuinely amazing. True gentlemen with wonderful stories, and self-deprecating. All amazingly skillful with hundreds of thousands of hours of technical training. And all different in their own way - all individuals. A…
Anyone read Andrew Smith's Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth?
Perhaps more about Mr Smith than the Apollo missions (sort of gonzo style journalistic account of his search for the Apollo astronauts) but interesting.
Re: “Houston, We've Had a Problem” (1975)
#30> Since Apollo 13 many people have asked me, "Did you have suicide pills on board?"
I would have to imagine that if the circumstances made it obvious that returning to Earth was impossible, the astronauts probably would have chosen to end their days on the surface of the moon. Assuming the LM could land with three on board.