How Websites Looked Ten Years Ago

Posted by Joanna Ong in Blogs & Internet on September 20, 2011 at 4:12 pm

Back in 2001, you’d have to mail in money orders to pay for online shopping. Wikipedia had just launched, and research was probably still done by reading books. Things have changed. What do you remember about the internet ten years ago? (I remember playing Neopets…)

Link -via Look At This

 
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Why “Daisy” in 2001: A Space Odyssey?

Posted by Robert Birming in Film, Video Clips on August 24, 2008 at 8:37 am

Why did the HAL 9000 computer sing “Daisy Bell” in the 1968 science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey, written by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke?

Maybe this video clip, taken from a documentary where Arthur C. Clarke is visiting Bell Labs back in the early 60s, will give you an answer to that question.

Link [YouTube] – via Fanboy

 
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