thebigcaption:

Directed By Wes Anderson

original

old-building

What’s amazing here is that he’s actually NOT doing color cycling. Color cycling was required because it was unrealistic (or impossible) to refresh the actual pixels so instead you update the color palette – 256 colors to manage instead of 640*480=307,200 pixels.

But computers are so much faster now that he can redraw those pixels in realtime in an interpreted language running on a multitasking OS while playing audio on a computer that can fit in your pocket.

sergey_larenkov

Ul Qoma / Beszel

In which the hacker tourist ventures forth across the wide and wondrous meatspace of three continents, acquainting himself with the customs and dialects of the exotic Manhole Villagers of Thailand, the U-Turn Tunnelers of the Nile Delta, the Cable Nomads of Lan tao Island, the Slack Control Wizards of Chelmsford, the Subterranean Ex-Telegraphers of Cornwall, and other previously unknown and unchronicled folk; also, biographical sketches of the two long-dead Supreme Ninja Hacker Mage Lords of global telecommunications, and other material pertaining to the business and technology of Undersea Fiber-Optic Cables, as well as an account of the laying of the longest wire on Earth, which should not be without interest to the readers of Wired.

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By Neal Stephenson in Wired 4.12: Mother Earth Mother Board

Very old, but very very good.