John Sturgeon

@johnsturgeon
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Software Engineer (retired from ) currently working on volunteer programming for open source projects.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@derekvanvliet/116585848135374695

I have no idea what life circumstances happened to make this video a thing. But I’m glad.

1859: "When we reflect on what Brown...has striven to effect, and when we remember that he is about to die, slaughtered by the American Republic, the crime assumes an importance co-extensive with that of the nation which commits it...we declare our conviction that John Brown will not die; for we recoil horror-struck from the idea of so great a crime committed by so great a people." #VictorHugo #JohnBrown https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Victor_Hugo%27s_letter_to_the_London_News_regarding_John_Brown
Victor Hugo's letter to the London News regarding John Brown - Wikisource, the free online library

really happy to have discovered something hiding in plain sight for several years: robyn & rand miller's original Myst pitch document from 1991.

it's a succinct work of art in itself. i'm surprised at how much of the world design was already on paper.

as all of the copies found elsewhere online are heavily compressed webp/jpeg, i've uploaded the robyn's original PNGs to IA here:

https://archive.org/details/myst_proposal

originally from robyn's site:

http://www.robynmiller.net/video-games-films

#digiPres #softwarePreservation #archival #gamedev #myst #cyan

LOL - These things are so easy.

“The internet is not dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is dying.”

by @tg

https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet

The Boring Internet

The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. A visual essay about what actually persists.

Terry Godier

RE: https://chaos.social/@hister/116516938647869823

I have no idea what Hister is but I find the branding decisions interesting.

Name is close to Hitler. Logo gives off the feels of a swastika.

Again. No clue what Hister is. I just find it odd.

#accidentalnazi