I love that I can watch TV on the internet. Adult Swim's Fix is especially a well visited destination for me. However, I do have a problem with them. One and all, in my expirience, they forget what radio stations and television channels have trained us for all our lives: never reach for the remote until you know what's on next. When one show is over, the familiar feeling of "hey, look what's next" is a nice way to relax in front of the TV, because its already on its way and you don't have to do a damn thing for it. All the video distributions I've used across the internet, however, make me request each and every show or clip or whatever, and simply stop when the current one ends. Why can't I sit back and enjoy the show, without knowing what it is?
I am just so excited about this. CARDIAC. The Cardboard Computer. How cool is that? This piece of history is amazing and better than that: it is extremely accessible. This fantastic design was built in 1969 by David Hagelbarger at Bell Labs to explain what computers were to those who would otherwise have no exposure to them. Miraculously, the CARDIAC (CARDboard Interactive Aid to Computation) was able to actually function as a slow and rudimentary computer. One of the most fascinating aspects of this gem is that at the time of its publication the scope it was able to demonstrate was actually useful in explaining what a computer was. Could you imagine trying to explain computers today with anything close to the CARDIAC? It had 100 memory locations and only ten instructions. The memory held signed 3-digit numbers (-999 through 999) and instructions could be encoded such that the first digit was the instruction and the second two digits were the address of memory to operate on
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