Bits in the British sense?
I remember streaming the Engelbart demo a few years ago. I think it was compressed at too high a bitrate, because it kept pausing and buffering. I don't think they took advantage of the fact that it was monochrome.
It's too bad, because from what I saw of it, it was incredible. I'd have been just as impressed by it in 1988 as everyone else was in 1968, since in 1988, time-sharing BBSes still cost $2/hour, 2400 baud modems were expensive, and video conferencing was still Jetsons material.
What I'd really like to see is the video demo of the Xerox Alto. I know there is one; I saw a few seconds of it in the "Triumph of the Nerds" documentary.
Well, all that stuff might've been impressive in 1988, but I guess I'm thinking the really impressive bit would've been showing how to do it cheaply...
Was that LSD charcoal drawing thing linked somewhere recently? Someone showed that to me just two days ago, and I had thoughts of linking to it myself.
Wacky.
jm:
yeah, either boingboing or metafilter. Sometimes I fear I'm just a big metametafilterfilter. Or a boingboingmooch.
What's your site?