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PS: Here is the 1996 implementation of the Pac-Man game: http://www.masswerk.at/JavaPac/legacy/JS-PacManSR.htm (click cancel in the popup-prompt) (Mind the small maze for 64…

The game this tutorial is based on was done in late 1996 for Netscape Navigator 3.0 (which was introduced in September, I think, and allowed you for the first time to change the image source attribute…

Please mind that this is a tutorial based on a game for Netscape 3.0, written in 1996 and later updated to DHTML. For a bit more recent versions (2008/2009), see http://www.masswerk.at…

Since 1991 it's the third verse only ("Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit …").

Missing: The German national anthem. This was actually the anthem of the Austrian monarchy (introduced in 1797, in official use from 1826 until the end of the monarchy in 1918). Some Austrians are sti…

Not sure about this. The irritation is about what we may expect to be another quoting level (e.g., back-ticks) is implemented as plain code. By doing so, the language specs are dramatically inflated b…

[continued] To put this more clearly: The hamburger icon/menu introduces a metaphor of its own that is not consistent with progressive disclosure as used elsewhere in common interfaces (see above…

> "and it’s consistent with the logic of the progressive disclosure design pattern." And this is the crucial misinterpretation. Progressive disclosure as defined and used by Xerox is abou…

JS used to be a language that was easy to understand. Once you grasped the concept of how object references and scopes were handled (which everyone could who invested a few days in understanding the l…

Regarding quick oscillators, compare Marvin Minsky's method for circles by shifts only: «Here is an elegant way to draw almost circles on a point-plotting display: NEW X = OLD X – epsilon * OLD…

Notably this wasn't the first water computer. Compare 1) Water Integrator, Vladimir Lukyanov, Soviet Union 1936 2) The MONIAC (Monetary National Income Analogue Computer) or Phillips Hydraulic C…

Ok, let's put it on a test … YOU: Tell me the definition of morality. ELIZA: That is interesting. Please continue. YOU: Look, I need help; I need to know more about morality… ELIZA: Suppose y…

On "System Technology": See esp. at 17:00, ca., this is very similar to the view conveyed by your rendition (note the swarming aircrafts).

Personally, I think the opening sequence can't be topped by anything in the context of Cold War.

I once included this video in something similar (also relating to SAGE) as the help option, see this easter-egg: http://www.masswerk.at/google60/?q=list%20games (option 4) (Edit:…

For "authorized" advice, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2v0YuDatpc (Declassified USAF training material, 1958), alternate source: https://archive.org/d…

I know, and I'm aware that this is somewhat controversial. I'm currently preparing a detailed write up including some theory. I would maintain that it's a subjective view of a planar un…

We may also consider in this context Spacewar! 4.4 (1963) http://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/4.4/ – not using perspectives, but still first person (as would be seen on a PPI ra…

There have been attempts to rewrite world history based on statistics of how many young man to "burn" there were in a society at a given time – and it works out greatly. While I do admit tha…

I think, going to war has much to do with the construction of the male gender. (We're talking seldom about the male side in the gender discourse, but we may be allowed to do so in this context. P…

It should be mentioned that in German usage the golden ration (Goldener Schnitt) refers more to the proportions of the spaces separated by the cutting line than to the proportions of the surrounding r…

Even the very first digital video game (Spacewar!) used something very much alike (Dan Edwards' outline compiler). Movable and rotatable – think of advancing by unit vectors –, compiled just in t…

So you may ask, why random access displays at all? In the case of the DEC Type 30 CRT, there are 1024 x 1024 plotting locations at 8 intensities. A frame buffer for this would require 8 Mib of RAM. Co…

On pixels versus vector: Notably, it all began with yet a different technology. Early computer displays were typically point plotting devices, meaning, these were random access displays like vector di…

Very, very nice, indeed.

Actually, you could put a character inside the div and use the old "text-indent: -9999px;"-trick: Copy and screen readers fixed.

if the client supports .hasOwnProperty() or the 'in' operator ... (it's just a few years that these were not common, and there are still clients around that don't support it)