http://simonwillison.net/2024-02-13T16:06:51+00:00Simon Willison2024-02-13T16:06:51+00:002024-02-13T16:06:51+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2024/Feb/13/the-original-www-proposal/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="https://blog.jgc.org/2024/02/the-original-www-proposal-is-word-for.html">The original WWW proposal is a Word for Macintosh 4.0 file from 1990, can we open it?</a></strong></p> In which John Graham-Cumming attempts to open the original WWW proposal by Tim Berners-Lee, a 68,608 bytes Microsoft Word for Macintosh 4.0 file.</p> <p>Microsoft Word and Apple Pages fail. OpenOffice gets the text but not the formatting. LibreOffice gets the diagrams too, but the best results come from the Infinite Mac WebAssembly emulator. <p><small></small>Via <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39357709">Hacker News</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/history">history</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/john-graham-cumming">john-graham-cumming</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mac">mac</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/tim-berners-lee">tim-berners-lee</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/webassembly">webassembly</a></p>

2010-10-06T09:26:00+00:002010-10-06T09:26:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/Oct/6/jgc/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/10/the-100-year-leap.html"><p>It might seem a folly to want to build a gigantic, relatively puny computer at great expense 170 years after its invention. But the message of a completed Analytical Engine is very clear: it’s possible to be 100 years ahead of your own time. With support, this type of “blue skies” thinking can result in fantastic changes to the lives of everyone. Just think of the impact of the computer and ask yourself how different the Victorian world would have been with Babbage Engines at its disposal.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/10/the-100-year-leap.html">John Graham-Cumming</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/charles-babbage">charles-babbage</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/john-graham-cumming">john-graham-cumming</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/recovered">recovered</a></p>

2010-10-06T09:26:00+00:002010-10-06T09:26:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/Oct/6/babbage/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/10/the-100-year-leap.html">The 100-year leap</a></strong></p> John Graham-Cumming recounts the history of Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine and Analytical Engine, and proposes a project to build a working Analytical Engine 170 years after its invention (the machine built by the Science Museum in London is the Difference Engine). <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/charles-babbage">charles-babbage</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/john-graham-cumming">john-graham-cumming</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/recovered">recovered</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ambition">ambition</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/science-museum">science-museum</a></p>

2010-02-16T10:44:40+00:002010-02-16T10:44:40+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/Feb/16/john/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.jgc.org/blog/2010/02/magic-of-sub-editors.html">The magic of sub-editors</a></strong></p> A neat illustration of how sub-editors work their magic, using the original article with strikes through the parts that were edited out. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/john-graham-cumming">john-graham-cumming</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/science">science</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/subeditors">subeditors</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/writing">writing</a></p>