History of Instant Messaging, Pt. 1

24Dec07

It’s been a whole week since my last post, and I’ve spent it writing a monster of a paper and then recuperating from the accompanying lack of sleep. My parents were rather…er…surprised to find me still sleeping at 5:30 PM one day. C’est la vie.
Mako, I’m going to respond to your comment one o’ these [...]

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Tags: CTSS, instant messages, instant messaging, multic

Merge

17Dec07

I used to have two blogs, but now I only have one! Posts from The Fish Made Me Do It are on here now. Hopefully, this means I update this one more instead of both of them poorly.
Back to paper writing, so no real post, but here’s an awesome Heineken commercial about Jamaica…
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Tags: Jamaica, tourism

Knee Mouse

16Dec07

From Thierry Bardini’s Bootstrapping:
“The ‘knee-control’ was an alternative design for the mouse that was supposed to be used under, rather than on the desktop. Movements of the user’s knee controlled the device and the bug on the screen, a sideways movement of the knee controlled the cursor in the horizontal dimension of the display, while [...]

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Tags: history of computers, knee control, mouse

Subtle change

14Dec07

So I was taking another ill-advised break from paper writing when I found a subtle little change on Facebook and felt the need to take an even-more-ill-advised-break from ill-advised-break-taking to blog about it.
I remember when Facebook first rolled out with the status thing, it seemed to be encouraging you to type out where you were [...]

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Tags: application design, facebook, features

Speaking of Words

12Dec07

Is there a word yet to describe two words that use the same input sequence of phone keystrokes during text messaging and thus are often erroneously typed instead of the other? Homotexts, perhaps?

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Tags: Internet, new words, text messaging, words