Computer History Museum

[sirpaul484]

Since I am going to be moving to Louisiana soon, I decided to have a little fun and go to the Computer History Museum.  It was a very fun time, with lots of interesting exhibits.  Even though my camera died before I could get to some of the more interesting exhibits, I got a ton of interesting pictures, and I will post them, as well as a short article, soon.  As for right now, I just got back from driving to Mountain View and back.  As you can expect, I am very, very tired.

More to come!

[Andrew Armstrong]

Yay more! I intend to visit there next time I'm over in America and nearby.

[RedWolf]

Very cool.  I'd love to see your pictures.  I went there in 2006, but I'd love to go back and see the new Revolution exhibit.  The Museum invited me to press previews of the new exhibit, but sadly I live too far away have made a convenient trip over.  Perhaps I can visit again in 2012.

I think they used one of my Ultima V ad scans in the exhibit and credited VC&G with a placard.  SO if you see that, let me know.

[sirpaul484]

Sorry about the delay.  I saw something shiny, and got distracted.

Anyways, I didn't see the Ultima V ad scans (I was at the video games exhibit last, and I was sore at the time), but I did see THIS:



(sorry about the image quality.  My camera's batteries were almost dead at the time, plus I accidentally moved the camera slightly when taking the pic.. Also, the stupid camera refused to let me take the picture with the flash off.)

[RedWolf]

Sorry about the delay.  I saw something shiny, and got distracted.

Anyways, I didn't see the Ultima V ad scans (I was at the video games exhibit last, and I was sore at the time), but I did see THIS:



(sorry about the image quality.  My camera's batteries were almost dead at the time, plus I accidentally moved the camera slightly when taking the pic.. Also, the stupid camera refused to let me take the picture with the flash off.)

Wow.  Where did you see that?  Can you explain the context of that picture?  Man, they are cribbin' all kinds of stuff from me, aren't they?

That is a slide from my "20 Years of Search Engines" slideshow on PC World from Sept of last year:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/205185/finding_stuff_online_20_years_of_innovative_search_engines.html

(see slide 2)

As trivia, redwolf@launchpad.unc.edu was my first ever Internet email address, circa 1993-94.

Benj

P.S. Makes me wonder what else of my work they've put in there. Hm...

[sirpaul484]

It was a slideshow in the Networking & web section of the museum.  I knew all the other ones looked familiar, but I wasn't entirely sure if they were from that article.

I'm not entirely sure, since I didn't take pictures of the other slides (just that one) but I THINK they either omitted the first slide (the introduction), or they modified it to remove that part).

[RedWolf]

It was a slideshow in the Networking & web section of the museum.  I knew all the other ones looked familiar, but I wasn't entirely sure if they were from that article.

I'm not entirely sure, since I didn't take pictures of the other slides (just that one) but I THINK they either omitted the first slide (the introduction), or they modified it to remove that part).

Wow.  So do you think they had my whole slideshow on search engines playing there?

If so, that's likely against my contract with PC World (and I own the copyright to all my work), so it's slightly unnerving.  But at least it's at the Computer History Museum.  I want people to learn about history through my work, so goal achieved I suppose.

[Andrew Armstrong]

Odd...museums usually ask first before showing anything that could be potentially copyrighted on display. I know ours in the UK does!

[sirpaul484]

I should have elaborated more on my previous post.  The slideshow in the networking and web section of the museum WAS your slideshow from PC World.  I just don't remember if they omitted the introductory slide altogether, or if they modified it.