Ever wondered what the BBC News would sound like if it was read out by a 20 year old BBC Micro computer?
BBC Micro News is recordings of actual BBC Micros reading the RSS feed of the latest news from the BBC News website. It’s not an emulation. This is 20 year old technology hooked up to the internet.
There’s even a daily podcast with Big Ben chiming between the stories.
Genius.
“The Internet eats everything it touches.”
— Brady Forrest and Nathan Torkington (O’Reilly Media, Inc) in The State of Where 2.0 (PDF).
I love this. There’s something really nice about the idea of pathetic machines.
“Ubiquitous computing names the third wave in computing, just now beginning. First were mainframes, each shared by lots of people. Now we are in the personal computing era, person and machine staring uneasily at each other across the desktop. Next comes ubiquitous computing, or the age of calm technology, when technology recedes into the background of our lives.”
