Examples:
Anyone still remember the DVI hardware virus story? It blew my mind: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/09/24/dvi/ …
Or the Commodore 64 “lick your finger and touch the joystick port to continue”:https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/4424/how-did-the-rub-joystick-port-to-continue-in-the-creatures-2-infinite-lives-ch/4437 …
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Marcin Wichary Retweeted Yoz Grahame
When I proposed starting A Bug’s Life series at Backchannel, I imagined it could one day turn into a book – but I didn’t know how to find human, entertaining, teachable computer bug stories. Recently, someone did an amazing job soliciting these:https://twitter.com/yoz/status/1006636464350695424?s=21 …
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Marcin Wichary Retweeted Jonathan Shariat
Book idea: The oral history of Google Wave and its failure, also talking about the history of email, chat, collaboration – all the areas Wave was trying to improve. Interviews with people who worked on it, but also observers. Inspired by:https://twitter.com/DesignUXUI/status/1007779286088994816 …
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Marcin Wichary Retweeted Marcin Wichary
Book idea: What he said.https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/1015665349545508864?s=21 …
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Book idea: The history of tech from the perspective of a shirt pocket. (Inspired by https://twitter.com/Sierra_OffLine/status/1018595347369791489 …)pic.twitter.com/7ogA82Sa5u
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(A few more interesting ones I found.)pic.twitter.com/psEmo2NEW8
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Marcin Wichary Retweeted Chris Labarthe
Book idea: User interfaces for various modes of transportation: cars, trains, planes, buses. Not just pretty pictures, but also principles of operation, good stories, and – most importantly? – hacks and conventions. (Inspired by: https://twitter.com/chris_labarthe/status/1020534582406393856 …)
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(Here’s an example of a San Francisco Muni bus with some interesting foot UI, but also a rogue cardboard extension of the most important switch.)pic.twitter.com/RKej4dNKe0
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(And here’s some hand labeling on a control panel of a movable bridge in Chicago. Imagine all these with annotations, explanations, and stories!)pic.twitter.com/fcrIXc52H2
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Have you been to the Nike missile silo in Marin? If you go on the monthly "Veterans Day" old missile techs who used to work there will show you how it all workedpic.twitter.com/DgI5DTis5Z
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Yep, but very long ago! Need to do it again.
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