These guys actually tracked down a copy of Archie (including the source code) and now have a public Archie server back online!
Archie was the Internet's first search engine (before the web existed). I remember using it in the early 90s.
It's pretty funny how usable 90s tech is: imagine, a search engine that just gives you direct links to file downloads without any other nonsense involved!
The "Previews of Coming Attractions" flims produced by JPL for the Voyager spacecraft's encounters with Jupiter and Saturn were some of the first CGI I saw.
Scott Manley describes how they were made using 1970's technology and ended up creating an industry.
A signal from Voyager 2 has been detected by NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) over a week after communications with the distant probe were lost, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on Tuesday.
I was rewatching some Star Trek TNG and some Voyager.
Voyager is OK but Chakotay and his pseudo native stuff are annoying, and good god neelix is just annoying AF, the Jar Jar binks of ST, Kess kind of sucks, Tom Paris is pretty tedious. too. . . #startrek#voyager#TNG
okay, I know that the Kazon stripped them of all their technology, but surely they didn't stop to dig out the subdermal universal translators from some 150 odd crew members???
so how come they can't understand these particular aliens???
I don't understand why Tuvok has to make his meditation block-structure with his eyes closed? it doesn't seem like that's a great way to build a balanced structure?
Read a few of the stories about #Voyager 1’s memory problems, but people don’t say how it was organized.
If the failed chip contained whole words, then just that chunk of memory would fail. If it contained one bit of many words, all those words would be affected.
That suggests a design rule for long running spacecraft - use whole word memory devices so a failure doesn’t knock out even more memory. Same for chip design, put related bits nearby on the chip. Wonder if they have this rule…