Hitchhikers Guide to the Web
December 10, 2006 9:58 AM Subscribe
Prescient documentary about the web on the web (Google Vid) (synopsis here). Douglas Adams (of Hitchhiker fame) anticipates t’ internet.
He was a funny writer in love with deadlines; he loved the whooshing noise they make when they go past.
He was a farsighted chap and creator of the word and concept of babelfish amongst many other adopted cultural references.
awesome. thanksomuch
posted by localhuman at 11:24 AM on December 10, 2006
posted by localhuman at 11:24 AM on December 10, 2006
That Robert Winter dude loves his Beethoven! Vonnegut's story graph is also very interesting. They both got me playing in hyperland :O)
posted by algreer at 11:28 AM on December 10, 2006
posted by algreer at 11:28 AM on December 10, 2006
... and now i know where ubiquitous myspace tom got his name...
posted by algreer at 11:43 AM on December 10, 2006
posted by algreer at 11:43 AM on December 10, 2006
What a cool guy.
Although pointing out to mefites that Douglas Adams came up with the babelfish seems like telling slashdotters that Linus Torvalds likes penguins.
posted by Alex404 at 12:23 PM on December 10, 2006
Although pointing out to mefites that Douglas Adams came up with the babelfish seems like telling slashdotters that Linus Torvalds likes penguins.
posted by Alex404 at 12:23 PM on December 10, 2006
PANIC
posted by IronLizard at 1:12 PM on December 10, 2006
posted by IronLizard at 1:12 PM on December 10, 2006
Douglas Adams (of Hitchhiker fame) anticipates t’ internet.
There's much more to the Internet than the web, but the Internet-as-web-style-services was anticipated with Compuserve's business model in the late 1970s. One can think of HGTTG as an online "portal" in the same way as the Compuserves, Prodigy's and Lexis-Nexis' of the day.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 2:41 PM on December 10, 2006
There's much more to the Internet than the web, but the Internet-as-web-style-services was anticipated with Compuserve's business model in the late 1970s. One can think of HGTTG as an online "portal" in the same way as the Compuserves, Prodigy's and Lexis-Nexis' of the day.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 2:41 PM on December 10, 2006
This guy's prescience, from 1989, still amazes me.
posted by Heywood Mogroot at 3:40 PM on December 10, 2006
posted by Heywood Mogroot at 3:40 PM on December 10, 2006
No, DON'T PANIC!
posted by Area Control at 4:14 PM on December 10, 2006
posted by Area Control at 4:14 PM on December 10, 2006
Heywood: That's amazing! Literally as he was writing that on Usenet, Tim Berners-Lee was proposing the WWW at CERN, and within a year had written both httpd and his browser on NeXTSTEP. Within the next year after that it was all on the public internet. Prescient indeed.
posted by blasdelf at 7:09 PM on December 10, 2006
posted by blasdelf at 7:09 PM on December 10, 2006
No, DON'T PANIC!
posted by Area Control
I see you're still using the outdated MK I model.
posted by IronLizard at 7:22 PM on December 10, 2006
posted by Area Control
I see you're still using the outdated MK I model.
posted by IronLizard at 7:22 PM on December 10, 2006
i remember watching this and really enjoying it and i'll have to watch it again.
however, the net would be better if we had tom baker instead of google
posted by quarsan at 10:00 PM on December 10, 2006
however, the net would be better if we had tom baker instead of google
posted by quarsan at 10:00 PM on December 10, 2006
The documentary is from 1990 I believe.
posted by Gratishades at 9:14 AM on December 11, 2006
posted by Gratishades at 9:14 AM on December 11, 2006
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