Sunday, March 19, 2023

El Lissitzsky and creativity

El Lissitzsky (1890-1941) was a Russian artist best known for his contributions to Suprematism and graphic design. Wikipedia says,
"[Lissitzsky's] work greatly influenced the Bauhaus and constructivist movements, and he experimented with production techniques and stylistic devices..." (Wikipedia: El Lissitzsky, 2.27.23 UTC 12:41)
The rest of this post is some quotes from Lissitzsky.

Creativity


"The printed page transcends space and time. The printed page, the infinity of the book, must be transcended." (Quoted in For the Voice by Vladimir Mayakovsky and Patricia Railing)

"At present we are living through an unusual period in time a new cosmic creation has become reality in the world, a creativity within ourselves which pervades our consciousness... in this way the artist became the foundation on which progress in the reconstruction of life..." ('Suprematism' in World Reconstruction, 1920)
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Georges Braque and style

Georges Braque (1882-1963) was a French artist best known for his contributions to Cubism. Wikipedia says,
"Beginning in 1909, Braque began to work closely with Pablo Picasso who had been developing a similar proto-Cubist style of painting." (Wikipedia: Georges Braque, 3.16.23 UTC 12:28)
The rest of this post is some quotes from Braque.

Style


"It is the limitation of means that determine style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible." (Les Problème de la Peinture, interview with Gaston Diehl, 1945)

"The arts which achieve their effect through purity have never been arts that were good for everything. Greek sculpture (among others) with its decadence, teaches us this." (Quoted in Artists on Art by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves)
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Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Collection of 1990's internet search engines and web directories (before Google)

This post is a collection of 1990's internet search engines and directories (before Google). There are 13 search engines listed below chronologically by year founded. License: CC BY-SA 3.0

Archie (Sept. 1990)
"Archie is a tool for indexing FTP archives, allowing users to more easily identify specific files. It is considered the first internet search engine." (Wikipedia: Archie (search engine), 2.12.23 UTC05:43)

Gopher protocol (1991)
"A Gopher system consists of a series of hierarchical hyperlinkable menus... Similar to a file on a Web server, a file on a Gopher server can be linked to as a menu item from any other Gopher server." (Wikipedia: Gopher protocol, 1.26.23 UTC 19:59)

World Wide Web Wanderer (Jun. 1993)
"The crawler was used to generate an index called the Wandex later in 1993..." (Wikipedia: World Wide Web Wanderer, 2.23.23 UTC 04:58)

W3Catalog (Sept. 1993)
"Unlike later search engines, like Aliweb, which attempt to index the web by crawling over the accessible content of web sites, W3 Catalog exploited the fact that many high quality, manually maintained listed of web resources were already available." (Wikipedia: W3Catalog, 12.19.22 UTC 19:31)

JumpStation (Dec. 1993)
"JumpStation was the first WWW search engine that behaved, and appeared to the user, the way current web search engines do... [JumpStation] had 275,000 entries spanning 1,500 servers." (Wikipedia: JumpStation, 12.14.22 UTC 11:15)

Infoseek (Jan. 1994)
"By September 1997, Infoseek had 7.3 million visitors per month. It was the 7th most visited website that year (5th in 1996) and 10th in 1998." (Wikipedia: Infoseek, 9.6.22 UCT 02: 45)

Yahoo! (Jan. 1994)
"By 1998, Yahoo! was the most popular starting point for web users..." (Wikipedia: Yahoo!, 2.27.23 UTC 10:33)

WebCrawler (Apr. 1994)
"[WebCrawler] was the second most visited website on the internet in February 1996, but it quickly dropped below rival search engines and directories such as Yahoo!, Infoseek, Lycos, and Excite in 1997." (Wikipedia: WebCrawler, 11.7.22 UTC 21:32)

ALIWEB (May 1994)
"ALIWEB allowed users to submit the locations of index files on their sites which enabled the search engine to include webpages and add user-written page descriptions and keywords." (Wikipedia: ALIWEB, 2.16.23 UTC 08:44)

Lycos (May 1994)
"Lycos was one of the most popular websites on the internet, ranking 8th in 1997, and peaking at 4th in both 1999 and 2001." (Wikipedia: Lycos, 1.6.23 UTC 00:19)

AltaVista (Dec. 1995)
"AltaVista was the most favored search engine used by professional researchers at the 'Internet Search-Off' study in February 1998, with 45 percent of the researchers choosing it." (Wikipedia: AltaVista, 2.27.23 UTC 17:57)

Excite (Oct. 1995)
"Excite was once a popular site on the Internet during the 1990s, with the main portal site Excite.com being the sixth most visited website in 1997." (Wikipedia: Excite (web portal), 2.8.23 UTC 22: 59)

LookSmart (Oct. 1996)
"By 1999... LookSmart was the twelfth most visited website worldwide with 10 million users..." (Wikipedia: LookSmart, 7.3.22 UTC 01:50)
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Collection of quotes about DMOZ

This post is a collection of quotes about DMOZ. There are 6 quotes listed below. License: CC BY-SA 3.0

1. "DMOZ was founded in the United States as Gnuhoo by Rich Skrenta and Bob Truel in 1998 while they were both working as engineers for Sun Microsystems." (Wikipedia: DMOZ, 2.27.23 UTC 16:14)

2. "On October 31, 2015, there were 3,996,412 sites listed in 1,026,706 categories." (Wikipedia: DMOZ, 2.27.23 UTC 16:14)

3. "As of April 2013, the number of contributing editors had increased to 97,584." (Wikipedia: DMOZ, 2.27.23 UTC 16:14)

4. "DMOZ closed on March 17, 2017 because AOL no longer wished to support the project." (Wikipedia: DMOZ, 2.27.23 UTC 16:14)

5. "...it was announced that while the DMOZ URL would not return, a successor version of the directory named Curlie would be provided." (Wikipedia: DMOZ, 2.27.23 UTC 16:14)

6. "The concept of using a large-scale community of editors to compile online content has been successfully applied to other types of projects... According to Larry Sanger, DMOZ was part of the inspiration for the Nupedia project, out of which Wikipedia grew." (Wikipedia: DMOZ, 2.27.23 UTC 16:14)
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Collection of quotes about the Yahoo! Directory

This post is a collection of quotes about the Yahoo! Directory. There are 4 quotes listed below. License: CC BY-SA 3.0

1. "In January 1994, Yang and Filo were electrical engineering graduate students at Stanford University, when they created a website named 'Jerry and David's guide to the World Wide Web. The site was a human-edited web directory..." (Wikipedia: Yahoo!, 2.27.23 UTC 10:33)

2. "In 1995, a search engine function, called Yahoo Search, was introduced. This allowed users to search Yahoo! Directory." (Wikipedia: Yahoo!, 2.27.23 UTC 10:33)

3. "Users could browse thousands of listings which were organized in 7 or more tiers. For example, if a user was looking for a site on chess they might follow a path such as: recreation -> games -> board games -> chess." (Wikipedia: Yahoo! Directory, 11.24.22 UTC 23: 53)

4. "On September 26, 2014, Yahoo! announced that it would be closing the directory on December 31, 2014." (Wikipedia: Yahoo! Directory, 11.24.22 UTC 23: 53)
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Monday, February 27, 2023

Collection of quotes about Go

This post is a collection of quotes about Go (initially released in 2009). There are 2 quotes listed below. License: CC BY-SA 3.0

1. "[Go] is syntactically similar to C, but with memory safety, garbage collection, structural typing and CSP-style concurrency." (Wikipedia: Go (programming language), 2.26.23 UTC 23:51)

2. "The designers wanted to address criticism of other languages in use at Google, but keep their useful characteristics:
  • Static typing and run-time efficiency (like C)
  • Readability and usability (like Python or JavaScript)
  • High Performance networking and multiprocessing"
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Thursday, February 23, 2023

List of programming language posts

This post is a list of programming language posts for this blog. There are 36 posts listed below.

    Languages (26)

    Libraries and frameworks (5)

    Miscellaneous
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