Thomas Fuchs

@thomasfuchs.at

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20 years ago I killed Flash with my #JavaScript library script.aculo.us. Now mostly petting cats. Also dabbling in #retrocomputing and #astrophotography. He/him.

Selfie in yellow, red and blue, reminiscent of Obama posters
Zaha the cat portrait, in pink and purple
Windows 3.1 Program Manager File Options Window Main MS File Print Manager Manager MS-DO Promp Help Card Games Freecell32 Golf • Multimedia MCS 808 MCS MusicRack Mixmaster Cruel Hearts11 - HP DeskJet 610C -- HP HP DeskJet DeskJet 610C 610C Toolbox Series Uninstall HP DeskJet 610C Series Release Notes Program Manager HiJaak PRO HiJaak PRO HiJaak Browser DosCap Application Trouble- Notes shooting HJSetup WIN Checklt Tune Up WINChecklt StartUp Clock File Manager D-Speedster 3.1 StartUp 4 Games Tetris Taipei Tetravex Pegged Tic-tac-toe Asteroids Lotus Applications Clean Up Lotus Organizer Dialog Editor Ami Pro Accessories Paintbrush Calculator Cardfile Mail Log On/Off Expert Typing Network Schedule+ Remote Access Net Watcher WinPopup Applications MS Works 2.0 Microsoft Office Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Excel Access PowerPoint Microsoft MS Excel Office Samples Microsoft Word Entertain-ment Fish Fireplace Xmas
Planet of the Apes meme, Taylor find a derelict ruins of the Statue of Liberty on the beach; he exclaims, "You maniacs, you made NAND gates lie! Ah, damn you! God! Damn you all to hell!"
A ginormous 1970s Sperry Rand Remington 1213 calculator with a 12 digit VFD display spelling out the aforementioned thing
Tim Cook with a FacePad
Using a Game Boy camera as a webcam on a Mac Book Pro
A photo of wall art of a cat face, extremely glitched out with lots of noise and visual artifacts
Kodak DC120 image but it's all wrong colors and wrong aspect ratio, it's all pink and extremely cyan/teal
SmartDisk FlashPath adapter for MultiMediaCard
Floppy disk that says “Lisa” and “Not initialized! This makes Lisa a Mac—not to be used in the Macintosh!”
circuit diagram socks
"a million dollars" meme but it says "a million tokens"
Partially collapsed fascist courthouse in Bolzano, Italy
An abstract photo of a well defined parallel and crossing light sections over a wooden floor, in black and white to emphasize the differences in brightness
Lotus Agenda 2.0 box
Cover of "Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines", there's a Mac desktop visible on the book with one of things a disembodied hand that grabs onto a copy of the book in a "infinite covers" joke design
Tears in rain Blade Runner meme: “ALL THOSE LOAN OFFERS NOT FINALIZED, LOST LIKE TEARS IN RAIN”
Cat sitting on 70s Pioneer tape deck and amp, it’s all shiny metal and gauges and dials and push buttons and flip switches
A white and brown cat sitting on a white messy blanket looking a bit belligerent in a black and white photo
First issue of byte magazine from 1975
A Apple TV remote with a cable plugged into it that looks like a blue VGA D-Sub connector (but it’s not, just a retro-cover tor a lightning cable).
Photo of a Game Boy Color showing a video of DOOM running on a Kodak camera from 1999
Return to Monkey Island blue-diskette shaped USB stick (there's little thingy to pull out that contains the USB interface)
Dust storm coming closer in a desert landscape
A CRITICAL now Imminent Threat Alert National Weather Service: DUST STORM WARNING for this area until 7:45 PM MST. Be ready for sudden drop to zero visibility. Pull Aside, Stay Alive! When visibility drops, pull far off the road and put your vehicle in park. Turn the lights off and keep your foot off the brake. Infants, the elderly and those with respiratory issues urged to take precautions. Emergency Alert now National Weather Service: DUST STORM WARNING for this area until 7:45 PM MST. Be ready for sudden drop to zero visibility. Pull Aside, Stay Alive! When visibility drops, pull far off the road and put your vehicle in park. Turn the lights off and keep your foot off the brake. Infants, the elderly and those with respiratory issues urged to take precautions.
Spock looking at an android lady while an identical android lady stands on his other side
Screenshot of my YouTube app subscription page with no whitespace between the items, everything looks like “the CSS didn’t load”
Hypercard stack "Soccer World Cup, Facts and Figures, 1930–1990"
A scientific plot with lots of spiders on it
A very janky digital photo made on an early CCD consumer camera (Kodak DC120)
Weather app screenshot 85° “l've decided to release future weather reports exclusively on 3.5-inch floppy disks.”
Apollo landing site scene from Independence Day (1996)
Zed @behindthebluemotel.com • 8s Bluesky Elder A black-hole launching anti-Godzilla satellite codenamed "Dimension Tide" is just about the coolest thing ever made up by human mind • • • Caræsten @cara.city • 11s Bluesky Elder me and June decided to get an espresso machine for the house and now I'm having like 4-5 shots of espresso per day send help send help
A 90s PowerBook
Choice meme sweating guy
Various 2000s era cameras with unfamiliar form factors
INCOMPREHENSIBLE PROGRAMS We have in the preceding chapters seen something about what computers are, where their power comes from, and how they may be used for model building and for the embodiment of theories. My concern has been with attempts to make computers behave in-telligently, not with their application to mundane numerical prob-lems. I have described and discussed some prominent research on problem solving, on the simulation of cognitive processes, and on natural-language understanding by computers, and have described the visions of the artificial intelligentsia, often quoting its acknowl edged leaders. I have hardly mentioned the failures that researchers in artificial intelligence have suffered, because the failures that punctuate every research effort are not necessarily grounds for despair; to the contrary, they often enrich the soil from which better
Few "scientific" concepts have so thoroughly muddled the thinking of both scientists and the general public as that of the "Intelligence quotient" or "I.Q." The idea that intelligence can be quantitatively measured along a simple linear scale has caused untold harm to our society in general, and to education in particular. It has spawned, for example, the huge educational-testing movement in the United States, which strongly influences the courses of the academic careers of millions of students and thus the degrees of certification they may attain. It virtually determines what "success" people may achieve in later life because, in the United States at least, opportunities to "succeed" are, by and large, open only to those who have the proper credentials, that is, university degrees, professional diplomas, and so on. When modern educators
Your muted words “happy” in text & tags Expires in 1 day
Cat sitting on table with me
“Logging On” in rainbow WordArt on Windows 98 inside Microsoft Word 97. Clippy is looking on smugly.
Car salesman roof slap meme
Your muted words parade in text & tags Expires in 1 day president in text & tags Expires in 7 days air show in text & tags Expires in about 24 hours Birthday in text & tags Expires in about 24 hours 250 in text & tags Expires in 7 days declaration in text & tags Expires in 7 days washington in text & tags Expires in 7 days national mall in text & tags Expires in 7 days fireworks in text & tags
A Game Boy camera trichrome image of a model of an IBM PC
A Game Boy Camera photo of an old camera that's part of a robot sculpture
A fluffy looking white, brown and black mini Australian Shepherd dog looking at the camera while lying on a colorful green, orange and pink rug The image is extremely lo-fi and full of color noise
Muted words: Independence Day, 4th of July, Freedom 250, America 250
A Sharp “mpeg-4 Digital Recorder” with a sticker saying MPEG-4 and “動画•音声記錄” (which means “video/audio recording”)
Energie wird zu Materie: Ein Blick in die Welt der Elementarteilchen Cover shows exploding fruit
A very pixelated false-color image though the movie title "HACKERS" is discernible, such is a person on the cover
The XTEINK X3 vs a Game Boy Color and a Kodak mc³ It’s (substantially) smaller in all dimensions
A picture of Rocco the dog in the Game Boy Camera app
Steam 21 years of service badge
Atomic translucent purple Game Boy Color and Game Boy PocketCamera (Japanese version of the camera). Uncanny Mario is dancing on the screen
A tiny e-reader, the XTEINK X3, open on the first chapter of Moby-Dick, resting on a MacBook Pro keyboard and only covering a few keys
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