ianbobmorrisOct 12
Nanoraptor

The Macintosh PowerBook BLIT was definitely safe for looking at all possible images.

For a little while, anyway.

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Show threadskategoat 🐐 🇵🇸Oct 11
@NanoRaptor horror prompt
Show threadchell (friend of eggbug)Oct 11
@NanoRaptor is that a new pattern? doesn't look like a berryman-langford to me
Show threadMayaOct 12
@alterae @NanoRaptor It's an older creepypasta image inspired by BLIT: https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/The_Parrot
The Parrot

The image on the right, (colloquially "The Parrot," as it bears the resemblance even when viewed safely) is a reconstruction of Berriman and Turner's original "Logical Imaging Technique" image produced by Cambridge Computing Lab IV (now, obviously, defunct) at some point in 1983. This image, along with several others inadvertently produced - most infamously 'Langford's Basilisk' and the imagery produced by a typographical error in Your Sinclair #23's "Fun with Fractals" feature. - generates...

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Show threadchell (friend of eggbug)Oct 12
@Mayabotics @NanoRaptor that looks more like a chicken than a parrot but thank you!
Show threadStewart RussellOct 11
@NanoRaptor here for the Langford content
Show threadRylie Stargazer 🏳️‍⚧️Oct 11
@NanoRaptor so hard to get large LCD panels those days. Cheaper and easier to tile the small ones I guess
Show threadResunaOct 11

@NanoRaptor

Is that the parrot?

Show threadNanoraptorOct 11
@resuna it might be. Not sure I want to find out for sure.
Show threadPete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫Oct 12
@NanoRaptor @resuna
Now we all have to get drunk to forget it before our brains piece the details together.
Show threadResunaOct 12

@petealexharris @NanoRaptor

Don't you want to join the Shudder Club?

Show threadTim ChaseOct 11
@NanoRaptor Ah, a Biblically accurate PowerBook?
Show threadDigital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 👽Oct 11

@NanoRaptor You're the reason the image-based Internet was banned! We have to use USENET forever now!

… I dunno if that's a bad thing.
#differentKindsOfDarkness

Show threadMozOct 12
@mdhughes @NanoRaptor I dunno if you've looked at USENET recently but these days it's all images and binaries. NFI what they're doing, but I wanted ancient archives of weird groups and those are hard to find.
Show threadColin MacleodOct 12
@moz @mdhughes @NanoRaptor "I wanted ancient archives of weird groups and those are hard to find." - Text-based Usenet still exists though it's fairly quiet these days. I operate a free web interface to non-binary Usenet at https://newsgrouper.org which has quite a lot of history.
Show threadRobrabOct 12
@mdhughes @NanoRaptor shudder as I remember some of the alt.binaries newsgroups.
Show threadCavyherdOct 12

@mdhughes @NanoRaptor

My vague recollection is that USENET mostly died under the weight of the killfiles you needed to see your friends' actual posts....

Show threadamberOct 11
@NanoRaptor what in the tarnation
Show threadLeminskiOct 11
@NanoRaptor I remember these! You'd use one screen for finder, and another for the bible!
Show threadKarl BaronOct 12
@NanoRaptor Now I’m hungry for a PowerBook Bacon Lettuce Tomato
Show threadKit BashirOct 12
@NanoRaptor *wink*
Show threadEfi (nap pet) 🦊💤Oct 12
@NanoRaptor glad the next version added the USB ports on the unused areas, it was wasted space
Show threadKlaus FrankOct 12

@NanoRaptor WTF, this wasn't a real product, was it?

What was the intended purpose for this? Really curious what the usage is that anyone would design this for and be like "yea this is a good product that we could sell".

Edit: Doesn't appear to be a real product. At least it has 0 google search results neither by (claimed) product name, nor by picture.

Show threadBenno Oct 12
@agowa338 @NanoRaptor you might be on to something!
Show threadKlaus FrankOct 12

@benno @NanoRaptor

Well similarly "strange looking" devices actually exist(ed). So it would not have been entirely unreasonable for it having actually existed for some exotic usage for a special target market/audience.

It also wasn't labeled as a fake product. And I'd really prefer when fedi didn't become like twitter where you don't even bother looking into anything as 99.99999% of the time it is just a waste of time.

I'd really like this platform here to stay at a "trust but verify" level.

Show threadStarkRGOct 12
@NanoRaptor You've gone too far this time! Or maybe not far enough. It's hard to tell sometimes.
Show threadUpLateGeekOct 12
@NanoRaptor I bet it still has the same annoying issue old PowerBooks have where the plastic case of the screen cracks around the hinges.
Show threadShapeshiftingLizardOct 12
@NanoRaptor
Ｂｅ　ｎｏｔ　ａｆｒａｉｄ！
Show threadvarx/socialOct 12
@NanoRaptor jesus christ, CW this