Protos

Well real men post a picture of their firefox plugins – its a fact:

why? because I can.

That is the claim of the platopeople.com site

The PLATO system, started way back in 1960, was developed as a technological solution to delivering individualized instruction, in thousands of subjects from algebra to zoology, to students in schools and universities across the nation. As the system grew and evolved, it became, pretty much by accident, the first major online community, in the current sense of the term. In the early 1970s, people lucky enough to be exposed to the system discovered it offered a radically new way of understanding what computers could be used for: computers weren’t just about number-crunching (and delivering individualized instruction), they were about people connecting with people. For many PLATO people who came across PLATO in the 1970s, this was a mind-blowing concept.

Most people in Denmark anyway remembers two computers as the first ones: the ZX Spectrum and the Commodore vic 20 and mostly Commodore 64 as the first computers available to home users:

But it turns out that the Plato was an even older system, that didn’t make it to the mainstream market.

As they put it:

This book is the story of the people that were a part of that online community — the first real online “virtual community”, pre-Web, pre-AOL, pre-USENET, pre-BBS, pre-everything.

well! back to the topic of this post turns out these people had emoticons alreaye in 1972:

So basically the common understanding that Scott E. Fahlman invented the emoticons in this post:

19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman :-)
From: Scott E Fahlman I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers: :-) Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use :-(

But with the Plato system you were able to put Characters on top of each other

well I guess I am a nerd then ;-)

Omg this is too much for a nerd like me.

“You digg what I’m saying?”

All about Blacksploitation

@ elizium.nu/ they have DHTML lemmings running in a browser Pretty cool if you ask me – DHTML is an essential part of Ajax – these guys has it nailed.

At Adobe they are celebrating the 10′TH anniversary of Flash

It all started with one idea — the notion that drawing on a computer could be as easy and expressive as drawing on paper. In 1996, that idea became software, and that software became Flash®, the industry standard for creating interactive digital content. Today, Flash is a complete multimedia development environment used to create everything from rich Internet applications to mobile device content.

I disagree – don’t get me wrong I love the videothing you did, but the navigation in your history monster megabyte download is confusing.

I have always had a hard time with alternative and immersive menu structures. I prefer navigation to be predictable and preferably boring.

Too many flash sites have a annoying menu like Adobe put in this 10′TH anniversary movie. I have a timeline and a globe and a satellite and NO way of seeing the total amount of information available to me, ohh and some of them are moving targets. Anyway – I never got to much of the content. I found it too difficult.

Another thing that is kind of odd how come Flash so often end up being a sort of cartoon tool? Anyway – html for me plz. :D

Anyway there have been a lot of those add a personal message to a picture thingies – but I really like the one @ http://www.ronaldmchummer.com/

It’s just more fun with the Mac. D logo :D

I know it’s childish but *lol*

*rofl*