In the #scifi “Robots of Dawn” series, Lijah Bailey (from a Earth-is-one-giant-city) meets Gladia (from a tee-hee-it’s-not-the-antebellum-South-but-with-robots-not-slaves-or-is-it) planet. Smelling flowers, which are not on his world, he avers:
“These flowers smell like perfume!”
Much chuckles for the reader.
Or, today at W58/Lexington Ave across from the new DKNY ad:
“Wow that lady looks so much like Kaia Gerber!”
The lady in question is Cindy Crawford, supermodel, and mother of Kaia Gerber.
“This song is so pretty. It almost sounds like something the Beatles would have done.”
#retrocomputing i’m trying to find the first place where dehydrated serialization file (vivified at runtime) + eventing/logic handler file pattern of programming originated. My first exposure was in #apple Objective-C+#cocoa which was an obvious child of #next. Where did NeXT get the idea?
@sgharms NeXT began in 1985 AFAIK. I don't really know whether they had Interface Builder right away, or if that came later. ResEdit released in December ‘85 too, so Jobs & co. might have seen early builds of that before they left. HyperCard stacks in 1987 are not a RAM image, but pretty close to what NIBs are. So I'd say NeXT was probably the original source of that exact form, HyperCard might have slightly predated them, and Smalltalk images, MacDraw and ResEdit may have inspired IB.