Super space funeral 4 deluxe6/15/2023 ![]() Historical note Opera 8.50 “Bolton” version: The Opera 8.50 “Bolton” version permanently removed the ad banner and licensing fee from the browser. Opera was previously available free of charge with an ad banner. ![]() Declarative SVG animation (SVG 1.1 Tiny).Browser JavaScript: “on” by default with installationįeature: Browser JavaScript introduced with user on/off option.1st completely free download version (ad-free toolbar).Users had the option of paying a license fee to remove the ad banner and receive premium support. Opera 7 series Historical note Opera 7.01 “Bork” version: Microsoft’s MSN portal targeted Opera users by purposely providing them with a broken page. You can find the essay at /2015/02/a-21st-century-digital-art-manifesto.As a reply to MSN’s treatment of its users, Opera Software released a very special Bork version of its Opera 7 for Windows browser. While I rant and rave about Ryerson’s more punching-down snobbish opinions, hell I did so just today, I will say that the parable of Hypercard is an important one because how it shows how quickly tech is willing to pull up the fucking ladder on tools that help artists after they’ve gotten their use from them.Īnd, with and doing of such actions as “Best Stuff First” (HA) and the blacklisting of external links and how that appears to be related to larger independent-artist-disempowering trends in tech, I think that we need to learn from this parable and we need to fight the hell back.Īnd, if you’re a member of the tech industry working towards/complicit in these practices that fuck over artists I hope somebody breaks your legs in with a shovel. ![]() Liz Ryerson, a 21st Century Digital Art Manifesto. …(When Steve Jobs came back to Apple)…He returned the company to its original vision: the personal computer as a consumer appliance, a black box enforcing a very traditional relationship between the vendor and the purchaser.’ A world in which Apple’s walled garden aesthetic has no place. A world where the personal computer is a mind-amplifier, and not merely an expensive video telephone. One where the distinction between the “use” and “programming” of a computer has been weakened and awaits near-total erasure. ‘HyperCard is an echo of a different world. yet nothing like it has been well-supported or embraced since then.įrom an essay called “Why Hypercard Had to Die”: some games you might have played – like Myst, were made with the backbone of Hypercard. it was as if Apple actively had an interest in making it as simple as possible for its users to look inside the computer and learn something new about how they work. Hypercard was well integrated with the Mac, it was full-featured, and its interface was much less piecemeal and clunky than something like Twine. ![]() It was also, to be honest, much more powerful than Twine. it was a bit like Twine in how it made programming accessible, except it was more visual and intuitive. Hypercard was a programming tool for Apple computers in the late 80’s and 90’s. Is frustrating partly because there is a history within consumer tech companies providing more holistic and powerful tools to artists – tools which often have now been laid dormant or actively suppressed because they don’t fit in with the current “closed box”-style tech business philosophy.
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