Archiving "The Famous Computer Cafe" (opens in new tab)

A standalone project, incidentally: https://webamp.org/

Wow!

And you can move and resize the widgets! https://i.imgur.com/PmXmpVO.png

I wonder if we can get an MPV skin of Winamp

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41277014

This is a great interview with Gates. The interviewer is great too, great commentary and questions.

"A machine on every desktop ad a machine in every home - and one of the things that will enable us to do that is graphics"

(and he mentions how great the Macintosh was doing in the graphics area)

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Crazy the things that have been going on with him lately - and what was said by Thiel about him on JRE, yet HN seems to want to not discuss any of it...

(This 1984 interview with gates deserves its own HN post. The commercials on it are great as well. And the fact that the interviewer brought up Aritficial Intelligence is great - and Gates' response was very cogent of the state of AI and the path forward. Where he says "people worry about AI taking over" - and says when "we can make software fully soft, we can get machines to help us"

Great piece of history, that.

So there was a content-layer market for the early PC-based DBMS's, a la someone marketing the early 1980s equivalent of Wikipedia or Encarta?

Social networks were the LSD of the 2000s and 2010s. I would say the "cocaine" of those decades, because it wasn't particularly enlightening, it made some of us belligerent, and at this point we all regret it. At least we're starting to build some tolerance now.

If you look at how PCs were used in the 1990s some of it was pretty trippy, so you could also say "PCs were on LSD." Take Andy Warhol's Amiga: https://www.wired.com/2014/05/watch-andy-warhol-computer-art...