MyManao - And, still, do all upgrades to a copy of the site rather than directly to the publicly accessed version, before bringing them live.
But deploying straight to production is a time tested practice - usually best done on a Friday afternoon, just in time for pau hana, right? ;)
kalianna - Netscape in 1995. On a Silicon Graphics workstation.
Seriously right, everyone tried to get time on our one SGI machine - Mosaic and Gopher just flew! We actually ran a coil of liquid nitrogen (common in the lab) around the CPU to get that extra ~25-50 MHz boost. As for the pron, that's how all technology is used, as monkey brains be wired that way (printing press invented mid-1400s & smutty images commonly printed by the early 1500s, phone invented 1876 & by 1890s "verbal exhibitionism" is a thing, etc, etc. Nothing new under the sun, just upgraded versions with higher resolution and fidelity ;)
MyManao - And all this silly graphics from back in the day just remind me of those unfulfilled hopes and dreams.
Feel you there - psychonaut, tech pioneer, and all around good human, Douglas Rushkoff did a run down of this somewhat forgotten history and lost promise recently with Rainn Wilson (Dwight from The Office) on his podcast. Talks about the changes from people downloading and forming a well articulated response to upload (verbal chess by mail), to an attention economy after the highest number of "eyeball hours" and the overall move to "using the technology on people instead of letting people use the technology." Part of what happens when the economics get centered instead of any sense of quality, community well-being, or aloha.
That said, during all this rain, I've been catching up with some albums from musical artists that I missed when they first dropped, but now are all online from their official channels, and with an adblocker, completely for free, outside my monthly ISP fee. And to help make sure those creative folks can keep making art and music, I donate directly to them via their site, no middle man, other than a charge processor I guess, and no need for carbon to be expended on making any merch or physical embodiments of their work and shipping them halfway round the world. So today's tech is not all bad, just have to deliberately utilize it in pro-social and mutually supportive ways, same as it ever was, same as it ever was... (Into the blue again, After the money's gone, Once in a lifetime, Water flowing underground) - sounds like rain storm round two!
But deploying straight to production is a time tested practice - usually best done on a Friday afternoon, just in time for pau hana, right? ;)
kalianna - Netscape in 1995. On a Silicon Graphics workstation.
Seriously right, everyone tried to get time on our one SGI machine - Mosaic and Gopher just flew! We actually ran a coil of liquid nitrogen (common in the lab) around the CPU to get that extra ~25-50 MHz boost. As for the pron, that's how all technology is used, as monkey brains be wired that way (printing press invented mid-1400s & smutty images commonly printed by the early 1500s, phone invented 1876 & by 1890s "verbal exhibitionism" is a thing, etc, etc. Nothing new under the sun, just upgraded versions with higher resolution and fidelity ;)
MyManao - And all this silly graphics from back in the day just remind me of those unfulfilled hopes and dreams.
Feel you there - psychonaut, tech pioneer, and all around good human, Douglas Rushkoff did a run down of this somewhat forgotten history and lost promise recently with Rainn Wilson (Dwight from The Office) on his podcast. Talks about the changes from people downloading and forming a well articulated response to upload (verbal chess by mail), to an attention economy after the highest number of "eyeball hours" and the overall move to "using the technology on people instead of letting people use the technology." Part of what happens when the economics get centered instead of any sense of quality, community well-being, or aloha.
That said, during all this rain, I've been catching up with some albums from musical artists that I missed when they first dropped, but now are all online from their official channels, and with an adblocker, completely for free, outside my monthly ISP fee. And to help make sure those creative folks can keep making art and music, I donate directly to them via their site, no middle man, other than a charge processor I guess, and no need for carbon to be expended on making any merch or physical embodiments of their work and shipping them halfway round the world. So today's tech is not all bad, just have to deliberately utilize it in pro-social and mutually supportive ways, same as it ever was, same as it ever was... (Into the blue again, After the money's gone, Once in a lifetime, Water flowing underground) - sounds like rain storm round two!