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Luci for dyeing

i probably don’t talk enough about how obsessed I am with edge punch cards

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Luci for dyeing

@mnl an actual link about the mcbee quicksort cards. Stewart Brand, a pivotal figure in 1960's internet culture, (they apparently knew an internet was coming and they proceeded to act like it was already there using whatever was to hand) Stewart Brand swore by the McBee cards until computers obsoleted them. Then he switched to hypercard, which were, on some level, an emulation of these cards.

in an analog method, these implement what we now call “tags” or faceted nav

kk.org/thetechnium/one-dead-me

@mnl an actual link about the mcbee quicksort cards. Stewart Brand, a pivotal figure in 1960's internet culture, (they apparently knew an internet was coming and they proceeded to act like it was already there using whatever was to hand) Stewart Brand swore by the McBee cards until computers obsoleted them. Then he switched to hypercard, which were, on some level, an emulation of these cards.

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