Waxy.orgAndy Baio lives hereInterview with Alan Taylor, Creator of Boston Globe's The Big Picture- June 21, 2008 Alan Taylor, The Big PicturePhoto by Buster McLeod With its vibrant oversized photographs and minimalist design, the Boston Globe's The Big Picture weblog launched on June 1 to instant global acclaim. It's designed, programmed, and written by Alan Taylor, an old-school web programmer and blogger, in his spare time while working on community features at Boston.com. (You might know Alan from his popular MegaPenny Project, Amazon Light, or his other projects.) The idea's simple, but extremely.http://waxy.org/2008/06/interview_with_alan_taylor_creator_of_boston_globes_the_big_pictur... Code Rush, the Mozilla Documentary from 2000- June 17, 2008 In honor of the release of Firefox 3.0, I'm offering up a video that documented its very beginning in 1998 — the first open-source release of Netscape's browser and the foundation of the Mozilla project. Independent filmmakers followed the Mozilla team from March 1998 to April 1999, as they worked to open Netscape Communicator's source code to the world, in a last-ditch effort to save the company. The result is an amazing snapshot of computer history, capturing the people that worked.http://waxy.org/2008/06/code_rush/ The Machine That Changed the World: The World at Your Fingertips- June 7, 2008 Here's the fifth and final episode of The Machine That Changed the World, this one focusing on global information networks including the Internet, and the communication benefits and privacy risks they create. This is the most familiar material of the documentary, so I'm going to skip the notes and annotations this time. I hope you enjoyed the documentary as much as I did. And, as promised, here's the BitTorrent file for high-resolution copies of all five videos. It's a 3.1GB download with..http://waxy.org/2008/06/the_machine_that_changed_the_world_the_world_at_your_fingertips/ The Machine That Changed the World: The Thinking Machine- June 7, 2008 The fourth episode of The Machine That Changed the World covers the history of artificial intelligence and the challenges that come from trying to teach computers to think and learn like us.Continue reading...http://waxy.org/2008/06/the_machine_that_changed_the_world_the_thinking_machine/ The Machine That Changed the World: The Paperback Computer- June 6, 2008 The third episode of The Machine That Changed the World covers the development of the personal computer and the modern graphical user interface, which made computing easy to use for everyone. Highlights include interviews with Apple's Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, drawing with a computer in 1963, great footage from Xerox PARC, and some 1992-era predictions of the future from Apple and others.Continue reading...http://waxy.org/2008/06/the_machine_that_changed_the_world_the_paperback_computer/ The Machine That Changed the World: Inventing the Future- June 4, 2008 The first part of The Machine That Changed the World covered the earliest roots of computing, from Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace in the 1800s to the first working computers of the 1940s. The second part, "Inventing the Future," picks up the story of ENIAC's creators as they embark on building the first commercial computer company in 1950, and ends with the moon landing in 1969 and the beginning of the Silicon Valley.Continue reading...http://waxy.org/2008/06/the_machine_that_changed_the_world_inventing_the_future/ The Machine That Changed the World: Great Brains- June 3, 2008 The Machine That Changed the World is the longest, most comprehensive documentary about the history of computing ever produced, but since its release in 1992, it's become virtually extinct. Out of print and never released online, the only remaining copies are VHS tapes floating around school libraries or in the homes of fans who dubbed the original shows when they aired. It's a whirlwind tour of computing before the Web, with brilliant archival footage and interviews with key players...http://waxy.org/2008/06/the_machine_that_changed_the_world/ |