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Kevin Chilton

The lost souls of telecommunications history

Berners-Lee was pleased with what he eventually produced, but the PASCAL application ran on CERN's obscure and proprietary operating system, so he didn't take it with him when his contract expired.




"I gave the eight-inch floppy disk to a systems manager, and explained that it was a program for keeping track of information," Berners-Lee recalled, and told CERN staff to deploy the program as they saw fit. "The few people who saw it thought it was a
nice idea, but no one used it. Eventu

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Posted by Kevin Chilton on February 9, 2010 at 9:30am

Rose Tyler

Suggestion from a Film Critic to Write an Authentic Film Dissertation

Film dissertation or a critique is not a hard job to do, but to create a dissertation on a classic film would be an interesting and a research based project as you have to go through all the history and the making of a movie, and in which circumstances it is planned, how many people were engaged and who are the directors, producers, actors because a classic dissertation on a film can not be created with out going in such details as the film is renowned among millions of people.

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Posted by Rose Tyler on November 17, 2009 at 1:19am

Cliff Richard

15 Tips To Write MBA Dissertation

After the completion of my graduation degree, I eagerly took admission in MBA thinking that I would do it as I did my graduation. But it was quite wrong when I was assigned to write MBA dissertation. And I realized it that MBA dissertation was the last stumbling block in my way to get MBA degree. I started writing MBA dissertation because I was waiting to get closer and closer to get through MBA and start my professional car… Continue

Posted by Cliff Richard on October 7, 2009 at 6:27am

Kevin Chilton

Vol Libre, an amazing CG film from 1980

In 1980, Boeing employee Loren Carpenter presented a film called Vol Libre at the SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference. It was the world's first film using fractals to generate the graphics. Even now it's impressive to watch:

http://www.kottke.org/09/07/vol-libre-an-amazing-cg-film-from-1980

Posted by Kevin Chilton on October 6, 2009 at 10:30am

Kevin Chilton

Comptometer does broadcast controls the steampunk way

If you build a specialized type of hardware which, by design, rarely arouses emotions of physical desire in the general populace, you can see how you might have a bit of a challenge promoting your wares. How you get around that tiny issue is by pulling off a stunning steampunk mod while retaining the full functionality of the hardware, as British company Hi Tech have done with their Comptometer. The server controller, customized for use in live video broadcasting and editing, has already won a d… Continue

Posted by Kevin Chilton on October 1, 2009 at 7:35am

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