The Internet is Dead; Long Live the Internet
Various links to various websites, programs and papers that I think are worth sharing.
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- Productivity
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Productivity
“Marginalia Search is an independent open source Internet search engine operating out of Sweden.”
- Marginalia Search, “About Marginalia Search”
“cobalt helps you save anything from your favorite websites: video, audio, photos or gifs. just paste the link and you’re ready to rock!”
- cobalt, “about / what’s cobalt?”
“Think of this web site as a search engine for English words and phrases: If you have a word for which you’d like a definition, we’ll shuttle you to the web-based dictionaries that define that word. If you don’t know the right word to use, we’ll help you find it.”
- OneLook, “Welcome to OneLook® Dictionary Search”
“LibreOffice is a private, free and open source office suite – the successor project to OpenOffice. It’s compatible with Microsoft Office/365 files (.doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx) and is backed by a non-profit organisation.”
- LibreOffice, “Home”
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Wikis
Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance (NIWA)
“We are a network of independent wikis working together since 2010 to bring fans quality coverage of all things Nintendo.”
- NIWA, “Welcome to the Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance”
“BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable. It removes ads, videos, and suggested content, leaving you with a clean page that doesn’t slow down your device or use up your data.”
- BreezeWiki, “About BreezeWiki”
“On an internet dominated by ads and corporate-run websites, Indie Wiki Buddy is a browser extension that helps you easily find and support independent wikis.”
- Indie Wiki Buddy, “getindie.wiki”
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Articles
“Entombed: An archaeological examination of an Atari 2600 game”
“The act and experience of programming is, at its heart, a fundamentally human activity that results in the production of artifacts. When considering programming, therefore, it would be a glaring omission to not involve people who specialize in studying artifacts and the human activity that yields them: archaeologists. Here we consider this with respect to computer games, the focus of archaeology’s nascent subarea of archaeogaming. One type of archaeogaming research is digital excavation, a technical examination of the code and techniques used in old games’ implementation. We apply that in a case study of Entombed, an Atari 2600 game released in 1982 by US Games.”
- John Aycock, Tara Copplestone, “Abstract”
“Still Entombed After All These Years: The continuing twists and turns of a maze game”
“The Atari 2600 video game Entombed (1982) left open questions in the design and implementation of its efficient maze-generation algorithm that, through serendipity, we are able to address at last. We have analysed almost 500 artefacts that capture the development process leading up to Entombed, artefacts that have not been seen for decades, including a distinct, unreleased Atari 2600 game.”
- Paul Allen Newell, John Aycock, Katie M. Biittner, “Summary”
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