[HN Gopher] Archiving "The Famous Computer Cafe"
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Archiving "The Famous Computer Cafe"
Author : savetz
Score : 140 points
Date : 2024-08-19 03:02 UTC (19 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (blog.archive.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (blog.archive.org)
| a1o wrote:
| > Interviews in the recovered recordings include Timothy Leary,
| Douglas Adams, Bill Gates, Atari's Jack Tramiel, Apple's Bill
| Atkinson, and dozens of others
|
| That's some interesting people listed.
|
| Here's the actual archive as a note to myself to listen to it
| later today: https://archive.org/details/famous-computer-cafe
| Ciantic wrote:
| 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 Gates interview starts at 10:10
| https://archive.org/details/the-famous-computer-cafe-1984-11...
| a1o wrote:
| > The second player, the Winamp clone
|
| Wait, what the Winamp clone?
|
| _Clicks link_
|
| This is beautiful, thank you for this!
| mananaysiempre wrote:
| A standalone project, incidentally: https://webamp.org/
| samstave wrote:
| 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)
|
| ---
|
| 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.
| erickhill wrote:
| If you click the little icon in the upper-left corner of
| the UI, you can change 'skins' as well. Very cool
| myth_drannon wrote:
| In the episode with Joel Berez (Infocom) [1], he says people
| spent years trying to solve Zork. Imagine saying that about a
| modern game.
|
| [1] at 24:00 mark https://archive.org/details/the-famous-
| computer-cafe-1985-07...
| haunter wrote:
| >Imagine saying that about a modern game.
|
| Took 4 years to find the final scret cheat code in Nier
| Automata
|
| https://x.com/NieRGame/status/1345725199900155909
|
| And that's just one modern game example, there are many more
| spanktheuser wrote:
| I was one of those people. Or months at least along with a
| group of my high school friends. Most of the infocom games took
| between a few weeks to a few months of obsessive game play to
| get through & we played them all.
| dudeinjapan wrote:
| Timothy Leary said PCs are the LSD of the 1990s. If that's true,
| then AI is definitely the LSD of the 2020s.
| Woshiwuja wrote:
| AI is on LSD not THE LSD smh
| Ylpertnodi wrote:
| Given "it's" particular style of hallucinations, I'd put AI
| more on a mushroom scale.
| breadsniffer01 wrote:
| 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...
| toyg wrote:
| The LSD of this century is social networks. People now see
| reality through them, with distortions and all.
| lasermike026 wrote:
| Don't forget The Computer Chronicles.
| jetrink wrote:
| Tip: The Internet Archive's advanced search can return results as
| an RSS feed, ready to import into your podcast app! Here's a feed
| of The Famous Computer Cafe episodes. You will need to rename it
| after adding it.
|
| 1.
| https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php?q=creator%3A%22The+Fa...
| gsck wrote:
| 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.
| butterfi wrote:
| I can't decide if I want to hear the Douglas Adams interview, his
| passing still makes me sad.
| ricksunny wrote:
| Transcript of Gene Roddenberry interview (h/t slashdot)
| https://archive.org/details/Gene-Roddenberry-Interview-Trans...
|
| What kind of database could one access from a PC in 1985 from
| which one could learn about saltwqter crocodiles?
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