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20 years ago today.
@andybaio I remember when I had no Twitter account and was really confused when people linked to tweets, and there was just this short text, with no context, just some large font text on a blank background. Something that seemed like a reply to something else, but no link back to that text.
And there was a page (the frontpage?) with every tweet made, in real time.
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Ze Frank's The Show was self-hosted QuickTime videos on a blog with comments and an RSS feed. A community forum, wiki, and series of interactive web pages tied it all together. Social media was a bunch of blogs linking to each other. Facebook opened to everyone in September of that year, Google bought YouTube in November, Steve Jobs announced the first iPhone in January 2007. Twitter blew up at SXSW in March and iPhone came out in June, the beginning of the end for the dominant open social web.
I loved ZeFrank, And Rocketboom and MoBuzzTV...
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20 years ago today.
@andybaio twttr.eu - there might be invites @timpritlove @sixtus
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@davew my blog 20 years ago, I'd just gotten a C&D from Bill Cosby's lawyers https://web.archive.org/web/20060314164125/http://www.waxy.org/
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Also 20 years ago this week, on March 17, 2006, Ze Frank posted the first episode of The Show. https://youtu.be/VxyiRMcNIVo
@andybaio sports racers! Racing sports! Show me your power move!
I’ve still got my ducky. Ze Frank was amazing at the time.
Who likes the little little duckies in the pond? I do I do I do chika quack quack!
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Also 20 years ago this week, on March 17, 2006, Ze Frank posted the first episode of The Show. https://youtu.be/VxyiRMcNIVo
@andybaio I will never forget the one time I met him after he spoke at an event in Dublin and I told him Wagamama was better than any ramen in L.A (I had never been to L.A) and he immediately stopped talking to me and walked out of the bar
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Ze Frank's The Show was self-hosted QuickTime videos on a blog with comments and an RSS feed. A community forum, wiki, and series of interactive web pages tied it all together. Social media was a bunch of blogs linking to each other. Facebook opened to everyone in September of that year, Google bought YouTube in November, Steve Jobs announced the first iPhone in January 2007. Twitter blew up at SXSW in March and iPhone came out in June, the beginning of the end for the dominant open social web.
@andybaio remember when Ze Frank joined Twitter and said "We should have a Color War here like at summer camp" and it burned up Twitter for like a week and a half?
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@Eryel Worst part is it's 2D so it's a real navigational hazard if you see it head-on.
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It smashed through that fourth wall and never looked back
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@Elizafox not just that but all the exposition!
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to this day, it's said the STAR WARS logo is still hurtling through space
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@AdrianRiskin @conniptions there are enough museums and exhibitions who would gesticulate loudly and take it right now. And they have good contacts to experts to restore it. Here I remember @harzretro with good skills đź––
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@AdrianRiskin 🤩
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An Electric Jellyfish For Androids
We have to admit, we didn’t know that we wanted a desktop electric jellyfish until seeing [likeablob]’s Denki-Kurage, but it’s one of those projects that just fills a need so perfectly. The need being, of course, to have a Bladerunner-inspired electric animal on your desk, as well as having a great simple application for that Cheap Yellow Display (CYD) that you impulse purchased two years ago.
Maybe we’re projecting a little bit, but you should absolutely check this project out if you’re interested in doing anything with one of the CYDs. They are a perfect little experimentation platform, with a touchscreen, an ESP32, USB, and an SD card socket: everything you need to build a fun desktop control panel project that speaks either Bluetooth or WiFi.
We love [likeablob]’s aesthetic here. The wireframe graphics, the retro-cyber fonts in the configuration mode, and even the ability to change the strength of the current that the electric jellyfish is swimming against make this look so cool. And the build couldn’t be much simpler either. Flash the code using an online web flasher, 3D print out the understated frame, screw the CYD in, et voila! Here’s a direct GitHub link if you’re interested in the wireframe graphics routines.
We’ve seen a bunch of other projects with the CYD, mostly of the obvious control-panel variety. But while we’re all for functionality, it’s nice to see some frivolity as well. Have you made a CYD project lately? Let us know!
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@aperture We need more chaos like this.
