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lauren, 1 month ago to random

Back in the day, it was popular to use line printers to print out large (multiple sheets taped together) ASCII images to hang on walls and such. Some of these were very popular with us guys (keep in mind this was a heavily male-centric CS-era, even worse than now) and were NSFW -- but still ended up hanging in various places where they really shouldn't have been.

At the ARPANET site #1 lab at UCLA, we wanted some "Star Wars" posters. At the time, the only place I knew of with a potentially usable video digitizer (black and white, very low resolution by today's standards of course) was at the original Stanford AI Lab (SAIL / SU-AI).

So. A nationwide TV Star Wars special was coming up. This was my chance. I arranged with the gentleman who had the digitizer at SAIL to have it tuned to the appropriate local channel in Stanford at the correct time.

Then, from my bedroom here in L.A., over the ARPANET via my account on the SAIL / SU-AI system that controlled the digitizer, I grabbed various key images as I watched the same program locally.

Then, after the program was done, I FTP'd (file transferred) those files down to UCLA, where I had a UNIX program to create those ASCII posters.

Mission accomplished, thanks to the Defense Department's ARPANET!

Though this was fun stuff, a LOT was being learned about distributed systems and resources through these kinds of amusements.

luca, 2 months ago to romania

could be operational by the end of 2029

https://www.romania-insider.com/romania-small-modular-nuclear-reactors-near-bucharest-us-2024

#romania #nuclear

gubi, 5 months ago to random Italian

Sui social dell'odio sono iniziati i tentativi forzati di arruolamento del bambinello su base etnica o nazionalista. Ma Gesù era ebreo in quanto circonciso, palestinese in quanto nato a Betlemme e universale in quanto Cristo. L'unico schieramento che gli si può attribuire è quello dalla parte di tutti i deboli, i poveri e i minacciati dalle guerre e dal terrorismo, a prescindere dalla nazionalità. Il resto è blasfemia per chi crede e propaganda guerrafondaia per i laici.

omo_salvadego, 7 months ago to random Italian

A tutti quelli che si lagnano dei tappi non più separabili dalle bottiglie dell'acqua: l'acqua vi arriva anche tramite il rubinetto, e non capisco perché non lo capite

mattblaze, 7 months ago to photography

House of the Temple, Washington, DC, 2023.

The local Masonic temple, library, museum, and, I presume, gift shop.

Composite of two shifted images with the Rodenstock 32mm/4.0 (+/- 12mm horizontal).

Enough pixels to reveal all secrets at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53288608886

#photography

parismarx, 7 months ago to random

visited the museum of communism in prague and it was fun to see all the anti-communist tropes in one place, like how bad it was that the state built a lot of housing

Tutanota, 7 months ago to random

Does anyone know how we can come out from this?

informapirata, 8 months ago to eticadigitale Italian

Scuola, in Svezia torna carta e penna: la rivoluzione nelle aule. «Tecnologia dannosa, apprendimento in calo»​

@eticadigitale

La decisione del governo: vietare l’uso dei dispositivi digitali alle materne

Il nuovo ministro dell’Istruzione, Carlotta «Lotta» Edholm, in carica da 11 mesi nella coalizione di centro-destra, ha deciso di tornare ai vecchi sistemi di insegnamento, invertendo una tendenza che aveva portato i tablet già nelle aule delle scuole materne.

@scuola

https://www.ilmessaggero.it/mondo/scuola_svezia_carta_e_penna-7625580.html