LGR Tech Tales - General Magic: Creating the Cloud
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Date: 2022-04-14
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Can you please make a Tech Tales video about PACIFIC DATA IMAGES (PDI? They existed between 1980-2015. Although they weren't an electronic or major software company, they were the computer graphics arts studio that brought us many famous ads in the 80's and 90's apparently including some video games tech ads such as the 3D Dreamcast Ads and apparently some Msn ads. They also made floating logos for various TV Networks including NBC, CBS, and ABC. Also, some of their founders went on to do other jobs in the tech industry. MOST IMPORTANTLY, they went on to create Shrek and a lot of famous Dreamworks IPs due to being acquired by them in 2000. Unfortunately, due to Dreamworks recent string of failures they had to be shut down in 2015 laying off over 500 employees.
Do to this sad ending I think you should make this video, plus maybe it will help you get views from people interested in other areas of computing than you already mainly make videos on.
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Can you please make a Tech Tales video about PACIFIC DATA IMAGES (PDI? They existed between 1980-2015. Although they weren't an electronic or major software company, they were the computer graphics arts studio that brought us many famous ads in the 80's and 90's apparently including some video games tech ads such as the 3D Dreamcast Ads and apparently some Msn ads. They also made floating logos for various TV Networks including NBC, CBS, and ABC. Also, some of their founders went on to do other jobs in the tech industry. MOST IMPORTANTLY, they went on to create Shrek and a lot of famous Dreamworks IPs due to being acquired by them in 2000. Unfortunately, due to Dreamworks recent string of failures they had to be shut down in 2015 laying off over 500 employees.
Do to this sad ending I think you should make this video, plus maybe it will help you get views from people interested in other areas of computing than you already mainly make videos on.
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dacypher22
Another company that might make a good Tech Tales is Juno Online Services. When I think of General Magic, Eagle computers and others who were giants who have fallen, they come to mind. In the early days of the Internet, Juno became a giant by offering first free email with ads through its client and then free Internet service. There were a couple of years there in the 90's where basically everyone I knew had a Juno email address, mostly lured-in by those -Free Email! - CDs they gave away in book stores. While it is difficult to find hard numbers, I would have to imagine their reach was gigantic for a while. And then they just sort of faded away, which is hard to understand why considering how difficult it is to compete with free, even if there are ads on it. They were already pretty obscure before broadband was really available. What happened?
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Another company that might make a good Tech Tales is Juno Online Services. When I think of General Magic, Eagle computers and others who were giants who have fallen, they come to mind. In the early days of the Internet, Juno became a giant by offering first free email with ads through its client and then free Internet service. There were a couple of years there in the 90's where basically everyone I knew had a Juno email address, mostly lured-in by those -Free Email! - CDs they gave away in book stores. While it is difficult to find hard numbers, I would have to imagine their reach was gigantic for a while. And then they just sort of faded away, which is hard to understand why considering how difficult it is to compete with free, even if there are ads on it. They were already pretty obscure before broadband was really available. What happened?
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Project
Consider taking a look at 1-800-Music-Now. a telephone-based service that let you -Discover- and -Sample- new music with the option to buy instantly and get a CD/Cassette mailed to you.
They were active (briefly) around 1995. I used to call them after bed time and press random numbers to discover / sample music DECADES before Pandora and the like were a thing.
It's how I got my first taste of Metallica, Slayer, and the like. I'd see what shirts the other kids were wearing at school and check them out on the phone while I tried to fall asleep.
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Consider taking a look at 1-800-Music-Now. a telephone-based service that let you -Discover- and -Sample- new music with the option to buy instantly and get a CD/Cassette mailed to you.
They were active (briefly) around 1995. I used to call them after bed time and press random numbers to discover / sample music DECADES before Pandora and the like were a thing.
It's how I got my first taste of Metallica, Slayer, and the like. I'd see what shirts the other kids were wearing at school and check them out on the phone while I tried to fall asleep.
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Jip
Hey LGR any chance of doing one of these type videos on the failed series -Alternate Reality: -? There was AR: the city and AR: the dungeon (my introduction to rpg's on the 800XL---why did I sell youuuuuu) but there were I believe suppose to be 7 games in series. I think, think now, that AR: the arena was next and may have even been in progress but then whole thing just stopped.
Fun games and I always wondered what the details were and a super sleuth like yourself could no doubt unravel this mystery. Either way thanks for great vids.
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Hey LGR any chance of doing one of these type videos on the failed series -Alternate Reality: -? There was AR: the city and AR: the dungeon (my introduction to rpg's on the 800XL---why did I sell youuuuuu) but there were I believe suppose to be 7 games in series. I think, think now, that AR: the arena was next and may have even been in progress but then whole thing just stopped.
Fun games and I always wondered what the details were and a super sleuth like yourself could no doubt unravel this mystery. Either way thanks for great vids.
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NukeOTron
Never buy a computer that turns itself on whenever it feels like it AND has built in speakers with zero volume control. Also, don't make a computer that complains if it's not hooked up online. That's what the Magic Cap was, in my experience. Then again, I get paranoid with any electronic device that turns itself on.
Then again, most people don't buy computers to -do their taxes- anymore, no matter what dated programming books that don't believe in graphics teach.
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Never buy a computer that turns itself on whenever it feels like it AND has built in speakers with zero volume control. Also, don't make a computer that complains if it's not hooked up online. That's what the Magic Cap was, in my experience. Then again, I get paranoid with any electronic device that turns itself on.
Then again, most people don't buy computers to -do their taxes- anymore, no matter what dated programming books that don't believe in graphics teach.
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DJ
Typical example of tech that was ahead of its time. Look at it 20 years later and we have lightweight, cheap and blazing fast laptops that rely on this very concept; Barebones OS that relies on powerful cloud servers for the vast majority of it's capabilities. Look at the Voice Typing feature in Google Docs; A function that used to require a very powerful PC to process the input in realtime, now you simply use a node and let offsite servers do all the heavy lifting.
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Typical example of tech that was ahead of its time. Look at it 20 years later and we have lightweight, cheap and blazing fast laptops that rely on this very concept; Barebones OS that relies on powerful cloud servers for the vast majority of it's capabilities. Look at the Voice Typing feature in Google Docs; A function that used to require a very powerful PC to process the input in realtime, now you simply use a node and let offsite servers do all the heavy lifting.
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WellLikedAssman
I just wanted to say that back during my senior year of high school ( just graduated in May, actually) my generalized anxiety disorder was in full swing. So I'd pull up a video of yours during work and whether due to your calming voice or the extremely descriptive content it would make all my unbearable anxiety and panic just vanish! Just wanted to say thank you. Thank you for making my high school experience so much easier, you're awesome man!
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I just wanted to say that back during my senior year of high school ( just graduated in May, actually) my generalized anxiety disorder was in full swing. So I'd pull up a video of yours during work and whether due to your calming voice or the extremely descriptive content it would make all my unbearable anxiety and panic just vanish! Just wanted to say thank you. Thank you for making my high school experience so much easier, you're awesome man!
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Linda
One of the General Magic software creations that probably will not make any of these videos is the banking software commissioned by Visa International. I worked on the software team that created Magic Banking that ran on the Magic Link. Actually paid bills and transacted with real checking accounts. But--Visa went with software written elsewhere for this same purpose to run on the PC.
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One of the General Magic software creations that probably will not make any of these videos is the banking software commissioned by Visa International. I worked on the software team that created Magic Banking that ran on the Magic Link. Actually paid bills and transacted with real checking accounts. But--Visa went with software written elsewhere for this same purpose to run on the PC.
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East
Tech tales discovers the short comings of nuclear power plants and sub par computers and the way the states pick cheaper companies too -modify- the original blue prints. making them run longer and break down faster then originally intended. to make profit. Its weird stuff to discover, not too mention brain frying peoples brain with newer and faster wireless communications.
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Tech tales discovers the short comings of nuclear power plants and sub par computers and the way the states pick cheaper companies too -modify- the original blue prints. making them run longer and break down faster then originally intended. to make profit. Its weird stuff to discover, not too mention brain frying peoples brain with newer and faster wireless communications.
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BilisNegra
Guess most of us viewers can agree how much in awe we find ourselves to see by how much the idea of what we know as the cloud today predates the term -(data) cloud- itself. But if that was not enough, to think that it even predates the internet turns what we thought we knew about computer science upside down (at least for a layman like me. Great work Clint!
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Guess most of us viewers can agree how much in awe we find ourselves to see by how much the idea of what we know as the cloud today predates the term -(data) cloud- itself. But if that was not enough, to think that it even predates the internet turns what we thought we knew about computer science upside down (at least for a layman like me. Great work Clint!
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