Anyways, to wrap up this introduction, the views I provide here are my own, but do stem from observation of not only my own habits but my peers’ habits as well. This article will not use any studies, data, sources, etc. This is because there aren’t any! It’s 1980, man! There are no degree programs in digital culture, no big conferences, no journals, no publications, no books even, covering this area. Heck, Sherry Turkle hasn’t even come out with a book yet on this phenomena, and a little bird just chirped in my ear that it’ll still be a few more years yet before Steven Levy writes his Hackers opus. So I’m here on my own, and will attempt to provide a view based off of my life in this age bracket—an age bracket that nobody in the Madison Avenue world really cares about yet, at least in terms of personal computing and online networking because Madison Avenue doesn’t even know what these things are yet. That being said, I’m not an expert at any of this by a long shot. Hell, I’m a latecomer to it, to be honest: I only got online last year. But rest assured there is NO data to disprove some of the points I make. What follows is just what I’ve noticed.
Did you write this? I am really enjoying the references, and the tone which sounds perfectly parallel to the previous article posted. The whole section about being frustrated about backspace and typos is especially what editors like ed and vi were designed for.
Hells no. But the snarky send-up of that last self-entitled little "I'm 19 and what is this" piece was just too perfect. I'm a civilian when it comes to computers. I use them, but I've never been that big of a nerd. TALK command was definitely a part of my college experience, though.
Entirely tangential but this is also awesome: Edit: but I'll be damned if I can get the ghostly, reverse reverby effect slowing things down with iZotrope. Maybe their algorithms are too good and fail to degrade the audio enough.
Oh, come now. That's Paulstretch, an entirely off-line algorithm. It rose to prominence when someone on Reddit discovered that Justin Bieber's "U Smile" becomes a towering 35 minute ambient masterpiece when slowed down by 8X: It was kindof a big deal Those who have seen Dredd may recognize that the majority of the movie is nothing but score run through Paulstretch on footage shot on Fantom. That movie doesn't exist without Reddit.
I remember the various superslow versions of popular songs. My favourite, the Donna Summer I Feel Real stretch, was the soundtrack to a screenplay I was working on last year. I guess Paulstretch is my man. Maybe I can compile it for Mac/Linux and fiddle.
Speaking for slow I had a lot of fun listening to reversed version of Bob Dylan's "Desolation Row". Some people in the comments were hearing a lot of different things in the lyrics.