[HN Gopher] The Incredible Machine (1968) [video]
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The Incredible Machine (1968) [video]
Author : syndicatedjelly
Score : 60 points
Date : 2024-10-23 06:24 UTC (16 hours ago)
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| noufalibrahim wrote:
| I started work and abandoned a small clone of this wonderful game
| a long time ago
|
| https://github.com/nibrahim/Devious-machinations
| mckirk wrote:
| Note that this is about a documentary about the human body from
| 1975 (according to Wikipedia), not the video game that was
| released in 1993.
|
| (Though for me the game definitely also was the first
| association.)
| wyldfire wrote:
| This is not a documentary about the human body. It's about
| computers, Bell Labs.
| mckirk wrote:
| Well, I stand corrected, thanks. Apparently there are too
| many things called 'The Incredible Machine'.
|
| I just clicked on the video for a second and the first
| image it showed still seemed to fit the 'human body' topic,
| because at a glance it looked like some kind of ultrasonic
| scanner.
| dangsux wrote:
| Which could all have been solved by actually clicking the
| link.
| mckirk wrote:
| I did click the link, as I said.
| cassianoleal wrote:
| I initially thought this was going to be about the awesome 90s
| game [0]. Was a bit puzzled by the date in brackets but I was
| wrong in my assumption.
|
| [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTbSMKGQ_rU
| wyldfire wrote:
| I also assumed it was about the game. It is seared into my
| youthful memories.
| m12k wrote:
| Casey's Contraptions is a mobile game highly inspired by The
| Incredible Machine
| MacAndSmeg wrote:
| The greatest game ever created, surprised people don't talk
| about it more!!
| neuronexmachina wrote:
| Same. TIM's designer/coder Kevin Ryan actually made a spiritual
| successor called Contraption Maker, it's pretty fun and still
| has regular updates:
| https://store.steampowered.com/app/241240/Contraption_Maker/
| cassianoleal wrote:
| Thanks! Purchased immediately. :D
| moffkalast wrote:
| I remember one of the sequels [0], it seemed to often devolve
| into blowing up vast amounts of airships and nitroglycerine,
| haha.
|
| [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY_cKZo51b8
| 123pie123 wrote:
| play it in your browser here:
|
| https://www.myabandonware.com/game/the-incredible-machine-1m...
| SeeManDo wrote:
| They made it say NOICE
| moffkalast wrote:
| They didn't want their computer to freeze, ergo no ice.
| ants_everywhere wrote:
| Is it just me or do some of the people in this movie look like
| they haven't slept an in a while and are just trying to hold it
| together? They just kind of look like they're under a lot of
| pressure.
|
| But it's a cool film. The rendition of Daisy Bell is what
| inspired HAL 9000 to sing the same song.
| Shawnecy wrote:
| This came out the same year as the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey"
| and at the 10 minute mark in the video they have a program
| "singing" the same song as HAL 9000 in the movie, "Daisy Bell".
|
| I wonder who inspired who, assuming it's not just a coincidence.
| TomWhitwell wrote:
| From Wikipedia: In 1961, an IBM 7094 at Bell Labs was
| programmed to sing "Daisy Bell" in the earliest demonstration
| of computer speech synthesis... Science-fiction author Arthur
| C. Clarke witnessed the IBM 704 demonstration during a trip to
| Bell Labs in 1962 and referred to it in the 1968 novel and film
| 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which the HAL 9000 computer sings
| "Daisy Bell" during its gradual deactivation.[13]
| tsumnia wrote:
| Despite picking up computers at a young age, that was in 1995,
| nearly 3 decades after this moment. It still blows my mind at
| what we've been able to do with the power to simulate and
| visualize everything around us. It's something I do think "modern
| society" takes for granted - that there's so much about the world
| that we JUST learned about, or at least finally had a way to
| translate theories into a format digestible to everyone.
|
| I wonder how as we learn to design out large scale AI systems
| future generations will think about how obvious they are to them
| but were actually revolutionary to us. For example if the multi-
| LLM agent simulations we're seeing with Interactive Simulacra[1]
| will spark new theories about how we should communicate with each
| other.
|
| [1] https://github.com/joonspk-research/generative_agents
| srott wrote:
| They had to develop Figmas precursor in order to make that video.
| mcursa wrote:
| re: early computer graphics check out john whitney
| (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIv-EcX9tUs)
| notorandit wrote:
| The real incredible thing is the "automatically generated
| subtitles". Try enabling them and watch the video again, Those
| need to be created by some AI, I guess.
| tralarpa wrote:
| So many techniques shown in the video: graphics cursor, toolbar,
| menubar, click&drag, rubberband
| animal_spirits wrote:
| This film is great because it not only illustrates the wonderful
| abilities of early computers but also emphasizes the humans who
| build them. Something I don't see as a focal point nowadays
| CalRobert wrote:
| I seem to recall software having credits in the eighties and
| nineties
| layer8 wrote:
| This having stopped is partly a side-effect of the "eternal
| beta" state of software.
| cryptoz wrote:
| "Thomas Knoll" is forever imprinted in my memory.
| dang wrote:
| Related. Others?
|
| _The Incredible Machine (1968) [video]_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11219180 - March 2016 (5
| comments)
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36689982 (July 2023)
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7759856 (May 2014)
| lysace wrote:
| "The Mother of All Demos" by Douglas Engelbart and his team at
| SRI happened the same year. It was done live.
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nm47PFALc8
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| It included:
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| - A pointing device (the first mouse)
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| - A GUI
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| - Hypertext
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| - Word processing
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| - Collaborative real-time editing of a document
|
| - Video conferencing
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| - File sharing
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