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A cartoonist from 1923 predicted automated artwork in 2023
#Art #Comedy #Generative #History #Automation #ML #Creativity
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Illustrative comparison between Moorish and Christian towns in medievel Spain.
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In 1983, Lucasfilm made the first high-resolution computer-generated image that was supposed to be near-photorealistic and "a single-frame movie". "The Road to Point Reyes" took a month to render.
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The Term "Weblog" Is 25 Years Old
The Wikipedia article for “Blog” says that the term was coined by Jorn Barger on December 17, 1997. Reading the Wikipedia article about Jorn Barger, we learn:
On December 17, 1997, inspired by Dave Winer's Scripting News and running on Winer's Frontier publishing software, Barger began posting daily entries to his Robot Wisdom Weblog in the hope of finding "an audience who might see the connections between [his] many interests." These postings featured "a list of links each day shaped by his own interests in the arts and technology," thus offering a "day-to-day log of his reading and intellectual pursuits” and coining the term "weblog" as a novel form of web publishing.
A “log of daily activities published on the web” became a “weblog” which then became a “blog”. I started what we now call “blogging” back in 2001 on a site called Robidog and been on and off blogging ever since, and since 2018 consistently on this site. Time flies. Happy Birthday to “weblog”!
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"Everything is worth what the buyer will pay for it." - Publilius Syrus (85 - 43 BC)
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Random Internet Conversation from January 1994
"This decentralized network welcomes hackers, phreaks, virii coders, crackers, cyberpunk wannabees, civil liberties groups, cypherpunks, futurists, artists, and anyone anti-commercial."
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Ball's Pyramid - One of the few remaining parts of Zealandia that are not underwater.
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Mao, in 1971
"In another 50 years China will be very strong, and by that time the Chinese Communist Party will be a hundred years old. Amerika will most likely be very envious and restless, but it doesn’t dare attack China, not even with a single bullet. It will research germ contamination instead. That is very unconscionable. After it finishes with this unconscionable deed, it will self-destruct."
