Your channel is absolutely top notch. Thank you for bringing your viewers such great information and perspective on the past. It's people like you that help bring us back from taking things for granted, and possibly educating the younger generations on where all these modern devices came from.
Can you please make a Tech Tales video about PACIFIC DATA IMAGES (PDI)? They existed between 1980-2015. I know 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.
From a tweet: Just a heads-up: the most recent LGR Tech Tales episode on General Magic has been taken down due to copyright issues with a few video clips. now stop asking :p
I love these. I understand they may not get as many views as some of your others, but they are just so well done! The information is presented in an interesting, yet concise fashion. This really pulls in the attention of the viewer. I really hope you keep doing them. Thank you for the great content
I really love the presentation of these because you don't try to force any cringeworthy humor or shoehorn "witty" nerd references. I don't like propping people up by vaguely tearing others down, but that REALLY gets annoying and I love that you typically don't do that. Just a seamless, informative, naturally entertaining video that doesn't waste any time.
I think a series focusing on important technology showdowns would be fun to do. Netscape versus IE, Betamax versus VHS, Commadore versus Amiga versus the PC.
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?
This was a trip. It's crazy, these ones where a company had a great idea but it was out of it's time. This one sounds like a supergroup of tech geniuses. But it shows how much timing matters in the tech industry.
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!
What happened? Apple secretly were building the Newton using GM ideas they were privy to, they released it and it flopped, taking the wind out of the sales of GM.
Hindsight is always more clear than how events occur; but it seems like if General Magic had simply left their proprietary Magic Cap and Telescript technologies to be more open to begin with, and allowing AT&T to only be one of multiple possible backends for entering their Cloud, then they could've had more early adopters of their standard early on. Since the internet was a natural evolution of the groundwork laid out by server computing, and was also being developed at the same time as General Magic's tech, it seems like the advent of the internet was going to be inevitable. The question wasn't _if_ the internet was going to take off and be massively adopted, but _when._ With that said, Telescript seemed very capable of allowing for encryption and secure cloud access, so it seems like if they could've banked on secure cloud access via any device and gotten some success from that. If General Magic could've done a few choice things different they probably would've lasted a lot longer with a significantly higher amount of success. I have to wonder how different things would've been if they did stay around and saw some lasting success from their cloud computing coexisting with, and even thriving within/through, the internet back in the mid to late 90's.
With so many aces in the hand, how could they fail so bad ? My take : •Reading the discussions on Wipikedia, it seems they botched it REAL hard. •It looks way too proprietary to ever gain traction from enough parties. •The "room metaphor" reeks of misguided bells-and-whistles design.
Sadly Fair use is only a defense in court. If they don't want you to use it they can legally. Though they would never go to court because they know you would win. But you would need to be willing to go to court and have a serious front for a bluff.
Lazy Game Reviews Yeah I get where you're coming from. Saves a buttload of money for other more important things like somehow finding a mechanical keyboard for $5 and hot wheels PCs
Wow, Clint. This is highly insightful. Still in disbelief that this was the group responsible for modern day smartphone technology and had a share in the advent of cloud computing.
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.
I second that. I knew of PDI as one of the early CGI companies, but I had no idea they continued to exist as late as 2015, and became part of DreamWorks.
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.
You capture the right words. Too ahead of its time. I came into the internet scene at the end of 1992. It was still at a growing stage for the masses and it was at a painful speed. These guys were doing a prototype of the smartphone.
Yeah, I was familiar with General Magic, but I wasn't aware they (or their partner AT&T) had coined this usage of "cloud". Use of a cloud symbol to represent nonspecific networks of computing equipment apparently was used as early as 1977 in ARPANET documents, though. LGR, thanks for this great video and for the link to the "What Is The Cloud - By AT&T" animation - I just cited that video when updating Wikipedia to say that references to the Cloud as a distributed computing platform go back as far as 1993.
Excellent video! I remember when the word "data cloud" was first introduced, and I had been doing tech a little by then, and knew what it meant and really wasn't that excited by it. I remember hearing about the devices from magazines, never could get one or have access to them, though. Thanks again!
Atkinson wasn't just the creator of HyperCard. He did QuickDraw and coded regions masking before square masking was cool. He was the heart of everything graphic that made both Lisa and Mac ROM, giving an edge for so long.
I was a heavy use of portico. Two key features: giving you an 800 number anyone could call you on and find you ringing which would ring numbers either together or in series.
This story is even deeper and more interesting than what is told in this video. There is an actual documentary movie about General Magic and the people working there to revolutionize technology.
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.
Volkswagen licensed OnStar for the 1997 VW Golf/Rabbit and other, later models as "Volkswagen Telematikdienste". It was marketed on a CD at this time with promising features at this time. Unfortunately, the system was analogue and support was ceased so in 2006(?)...
At 7:21 in the middle of the screen it says plane crash in Quincy Illinois. Me and my wife were in Quincy having dinner when it happened. We saw the fire trucks and emergency services racing out of town and we saw the huge plume of black smoke. This was just after my daughter was born in 1996
great episode again love your tech tales, surely they must be the ones involving the most research work of all your stuff, together with your vintage computer reviews? i wonder, does all that info still stick in your after doing so many? ;) oddware series are cool too
Worth noting that a lot of General Magic's former patents have been used by patent trolls in recent years. Company called Minero Digital tried to get royalty payments for every USB hub in existence using patents they bought off of General Magic.
Don’t feel bad, but I use the Tech Tales series to fall asleep a lot. The content is super interesting, but you make the videos so damn relaxing. So, I enjoy the knowledge and entertainment until I get tried, close my eyes and continue to listen, and then pass out lol.
A roomy of mine while I lived in Eindhoven worked on this thing at Philips. She referred to it as "the rabbit". I've actually had one of these in mine hands, via a different route: a company that I worked with, that dealt with Philips.
I swear that i once saw a device with the magic link logo on it being sold. It was either circuit city or radio shack, but whatever it was cost over 500
I picked up one of the Datarover units off of Ebay some time ago, it was a real pleasure to use and amazingly interesting. I would've loved to get a peak at it during the company's (and the hardware's) peak.
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.
I had no idea the "cloud" term dates back that far. I remember the term "dumb computing" being used back in the 90s, but none of it really took off as most people didn't have a very fast internet connection back then. Guess Apple just held on to the concept until the technology and infrastructure was ready.
I had a magic link for a couple years. I remember I had just purchased a sony camcorder rechargable battery (instead of the battery adapter) Then my magic link was stolen. I never did use that battery... It was a limited (looking back) but pretty cool device. I still have the berlitz translator software pcmcia card somewhere around here.
That's a darn shame you had to re-edit and re-upload that video after all that hard work. I just don't see why the BBC had taken your original General Magic video down since the news footage was still edited and not shown completely. Anyways, thanks for sharing. On the next LGR Tech Tales video, I would like to see the story on Packard Bell or even Compaq.
I see another example of how the "so called" "Fair use" laws actually work... Forcing me to reconsider a project idea I had... Sorry it happened, but I don't mind re-watching and re-liking. :-)
Just watched the documentary ‘General Magic’ brilliant. As you say in the video, the vision just too WAY ahead of its time, like 30 odd years! But ye, if it wasn’t for General magic, I wouldn’t be watching or writing this comment right now.
Oh for crying out loud! Really? Utooh spahetti-os! A '93 General Magic product ad in a LGR video....Zounds he must've been the owner of the company (as a little boy) all along.....wait....what's that you say, Mr.-Copywright-Claimer, YOU'RE the real owner of a 23 year old product? OH No! All that revenue from your ad for your cutting edge product is now gone...because Clint tricked us...it's just...unbelievable! How could the internet have let this happen? ;)
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These are my favourite LGR segments, but they must take you weeks to put together.
same here
same here
i concur. i love these things.
Tech Tales was the first LGR video I ever watched. I always get excited when I get a new Tech Tales video notification on my phone.
I hope whoever designed General Magic's logo is still doing graphic design work. Because I like it very much.
@Inje Kim yeah, I love it
Ok Kenny...
Happy bunny in hat!
Your channel is absolutely top notch. Thank you for bringing your viewers such great information and perspective on the past. It's people like you that help bring us back from taking things for granted, and possibly educating the younger generations on where all these modern devices came from.
I appreciate the kind words :)
Yup awesome work as always!
Can you please make a Tech Tales video about PACIFIC DATA IMAGES (PDI)? They existed between 1980-2015. I know 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.
TheCgOrion 9th
I think the next Tech Tales should be Compuserve.
It was everywhere back in the 90's.
I didn't own my first PC until Fall of 2000, but I remember hearing about Compuserve quite a bit in the 1990s.
yes!!
Tech Tales is an absolutely amazing series of videos and I'm so glad you keep making more!
Could not agree more
I forgot I said on the original, but good stuff!
"the general magic alliance" sounds like a cult.
Dade Murphy Or the bureaucratic arm of the Occult.
Well, it WAS owned by the Cult of Apple.....
Straight up Harry Potter shit
not as much as Star gate
Dade Murphy Or a group in the Harry Potter universe,
From a tweet: Just a heads-up: the most recent LGR Tech Tales episode on General Magic has been taken down due to copyright issues with a few video clips.
now stop asking :p
I love these. I understand they may not get as many views as some of your others, but they are just so well done! The information is presented in an interesting, yet concise fashion. This really pulls in the attention of the viewer. I really hope you keep doing them. Thank you for the great content
I really love the presentation of these because you don't try to force any cringeworthy humor or shoehorn "witty" nerd references. I don't like propping people up by vaguely tearing others down, but that REALLY gets annoying and I love that you typically don't do that. Just a seamless, informative, naturally entertaining video that doesn't waste any time.
These tech tales are some of the best videos you create! Keep up the good work!
Keep the Tech Tales coming! Fave feature of your channel!!
I would love it if you made a video about Netscape Navigator's and Internet Explorer's legendary battle.
I think a series focusing on important technology showdowns would be fun to do. Netscape versus IE, Betamax versus VHS, Commadore versus Amiga versus the PC.
Tech Tales is one of the best things on UA-cam, another great one
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?
Honestly, I'm just going to watch this agian just because it was uploaded agian. And i love tech tales.
I love your vids LGR. Especially ones telling stories about old IT companies. Keep going mate. :D
I love these vids. I found LGR through a tech tale about AOL and have been working through the LGR backlog ever since.
Love the Tech Tales series LGR, keep'em comin'. Reminds me of the glory days of G4
This was a trip. It's crazy, these ones where a company had a great idea but it was out of it's time. This one sounds like a supergroup of tech geniuses. But it shows how much timing matters in the tech industry.
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!
Love these look backs, you do a great job highlighting the lessons learned for those of us in the Tech industry to learn by
What happened? Apple secretly were building the Newton using GM ideas they were privy to, they released it and it flopped, taking the wind out of the sales of GM.
Hindsight is always more clear than how events occur; but it seems like if General Magic had simply left their proprietary Magic Cap and Telescript technologies to be more open to begin with, and allowing AT&T to only be one of multiple possible backends for entering their Cloud, then they could've had more early adopters of their standard early on.
Since the internet was a natural evolution of the groundwork laid out by server computing, and was also being developed at the same time as General Magic's tech, it seems like the advent of the internet was going to be inevitable. The question wasn't _if_ the internet was going to take off and be massively adopted, but _when._ With that said, Telescript seemed very capable of allowing for encryption and secure cloud access, so it seems like if they could've banked on secure cloud access via any device and gotten some success from that.
If General Magic could've done a few choice things different they probably would've lasted a lot longer with a significantly higher amount of success. I have to wonder how different things would've been if they did stay around and saw some lasting success from their cloud computing coexisting with, and even thriving within/through, the internet back in the mid to late 90's.
With so many aces in the hand, how could they fail so bad ?
My take :
•Reading the discussions on Wipikedia, it seems they botched it REAL hard.
•It looks way too proprietary to ever gain traction from enough parties.
•The "room metaphor" reeks of misguided bells-and-whistles design.
@@musaran2
They learned to be super proprietary from Apple.
I really enjoy these sorts of videos on your channel. They are educational, well researched, and nostalgic at the same time. :)
Man you are such a great tech story teller, and I love listening to rise and fall of great companies! You do a great job man, honestly.
Wow, thanks for "Tech Tales"..... They are one of my personal favorite videos on UA-cam
This is just such a good series. Thank you very much for your awesome work here and every other episode of Tech Tales!
I really love this series mate - keep it up! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
wow, talk about a hype-train crashing HARD
As an educational channel, use of those ads would fall under fair use
Arguably, but I'd rather just swap the footage and not deal with the aggravation.
Sadly Fair use is only a defense in court. If they don't want you to use it they can legally. Though they would never go to court because they know you would win. But you would need to be willing to go to court and have a serious front for a bluff.
Why would a company go out of their way to copyright claim an advertisement? That's rather silly!
It absolutely would have served as fair use, but I understand just not wanting to deal with the hassle
Lazy Game Reviews Yeah I get where you're coming from. Saves a buttload of money for other more important things like somehow finding a mechanical keyboard for $5 and hot wheels PCs
Thank you for making the tech tales, it's the best UA-cam series alongside Ahoy
Great video! I still remember interviewing there when I moved to California in ‘96.
Wow, Clint. This is highly insightful. Still in disbelief that this was the group responsible for modern day smartphone technology and had a share in the advent of cloud computing.
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.
I second that. I knew of PDI as one of the early CGI companies, but I had no idea they continued to exist as late as 2015, and became part of DreamWorks.
I absolutely LOVE this series
I've never seen Tech Tales before. I really need to go back and watch more of your videos.
This was one of my favorite tech tales eps. Very informative!
Very good Clint! Love Tech Tales
I love your Tech Tales videos! Could you consider doing one on Gateway Computers?? I miss the cow boxes!
I just like playing your videos in the background while I work on something. You kinda help me concentrate.
I love listening to Tech Tales while I drift off to sleep, Clint's voice is so calming!
+yngv1 Samoyeds Rule!
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.
Congratulations on 400,00 subscribers!
You capture the right words. Too ahead of its time. I came into the internet scene at the end of 1992. It was still at a growing stage for the masses and it was at a painful speed. These guys were doing a prototype of the smartphone.
That picture of "engineers" had me cracking up. How you know they're engineers is that they're senselessly wearing hardhats indoors.
This looks to be the birth of The Cloud. Interesting.
Yeah, I was familiar with General Magic, but I wasn't aware they (or their partner AT&T) had coined this usage of "cloud". Use of a cloud symbol to represent nonspecific networks of computing equipment apparently was used as early as 1977 in ARPANET documents, though.
LGR, thanks for this great video and for the link to the "What Is The Cloud - By AT&T" animation - I just cited that video when updating Wikipedia to say that references to the Cloud as a distributed computing platform go back as far as 1993.
Excellent video! I remember when the word "data cloud" was first introduced, and I had been doing tech a little by then, and knew what it meant and really wasn't that excited by it. I remember hearing about the devices from magazines, never could get one or have access to them, though. Thanks again!
LGR deserves his own TV show
I missed the first upload. Glad i caught it this time. Love these tales
Congrats on 400 thousand subs
Can you do a tech tales episode on Microsoft Bob?
That seems more like oddware, but seems like a good suggestion.
Thx
Yeah, seems more like oddware especially since Microsoft is still around and is a tech giant pretty much.
Yamatoman 64 m
These Tech Tales videos are awesome! couldn't help but subscribe.
great way to start my morning with LGR tech tales
Atkinson wasn't just the creator of HyperCard. He did QuickDraw and coded regions masking before square masking was cool. He was the heart of everything graphic that made both Lisa and Mac ROM, giving an edge for so long.
have my like again, you probably have a good reason to re-upload it.
He had to switch out stuff due to copyright :/
I love this channel and its Tech Tales, Tales of Tech
I was a heavy use of portico. Two key features: giving you an 800 number anyone could call you on and find you ringing which would ring numbers either together or in series.
I wonder what a on alternate reality would look like with this thing taking off.
An earlier release with only a year or two of real use before technology progressed as normal.
Well, an alternate reality where Apple didn't release the Newton might have helped.
This story is even deeper and more interesting than what is told in this video. There is an actual documentary movie about General Magic and the people working there to revolutionize technology.
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.
Volkswagen licensed OnStar for the 1997 VW Golf/Rabbit and other, later models as "Volkswagen Telematikdienste". It was marketed on a CD at this time with promising features at this time. Unfortunately, the system was analogue and support was ceased so in 2006(?)...
At 7:21 in the middle of the screen it says plane crash in Quincy Illinois. Me and my wife were in Quincy having dinner when it happened. We saw the fire trucks and emergency services racing out of town and we saw the huge plume of black smoke. This was just after my daughter was born in 1996
great episode again
love your tech tales, surely they must be the ones involving the most research work of all your stuff, together with your vintage computer reviews?
i wonder, does all that info still stick in your after doing so many? ;)
oddware series are cool too
Worth noting that a lot of General Magic's former patents have been used by patent trolls in recent years. Company called Minero Digital tried to get royalty payments for every USB hub in existence using patents they bought off of General Magic.
I love getting a small whiskey buzz and BINGING LGR. my friend
wow this is a blast from the past I used to do email tech support for the magic link version of AOL. still have one of these
I really like the General Magic logo so much.
Don’t feel bad, but I use the Tech Tales series to fall asleep a lot. The content is super interesting, but you make the videos so damn relaxing. So, I enjoy the knowledge and entertainment until I get tried, close my eyes and continue to listen, and then pass out lol.
A roomy of mine while I lived in Eindhoven worked on this thing at Philips. She referred to it as "the rabbit". I've actually had one of these in mine hands, via a different route: a company that I worked with, that dealt with Philips.
Hi Clint. As a French guy, I have a request for a Tech Tale. It is about the French Minitel. That was dead on in the 90's.
I love your Tech tales !
Darn I thought this was a part 2 or something, I really enjoyed this one
Great series. More please.
I swear that i once saw a device with the magic link logo on it being sold. It was either circuit city or radio shack, but whatever it was cost over 500
Need more of this!
Me: Oh yey new lgr video!! ....Ooohhhhh its just a reupload
I still fapped to it, again.
+Chew Bacca xD
I picked up one of the Datarover units off of Ebay some time ago, it was a real pleasure to use and amazingly interesting. I would've loved to get a peak at it during the company's (and the hardware's) peak.
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.
Good idea for Tech Tales or something similar would be an episode about Panasonic, with their attempts at the 3DO and all that
tech tales are the best! MOAR!
Watching this video on my Magic Phone.
Real unsung hero of tech :')
These history vids are so good
re-upload? ill re-watch it!
I had no idea the "cloud" term dates back that far. I remember the term "dumb computing" being used back in the 90s, but none of it really took off as most people didn't have a very fast internet connection back then. Guess Apple just held on to the concept until the technology and infrastructure was ready.
I had a magic link for a couple years. I remember I had just purchased a sony camcorder rechargable battery (instead of the battery adapter) Then my magic link was stolen. I never did use that battery...
It was a limited (looking back) but pretty cool device. I still have the berlitz translator software pcmcia card somewhere around here.
2:56 pause! looks familiar? 2016, ahead of its time.
2:56 I love this ridiculous stock picture.
Interesting tale about a company I never heard of until now.
Congrats on 400k subs
That's a darn shame you had to re-edit and re-upload that video after all that hard work. I just don't see why the BBC had taken your original General Magic video down since the news footage was still edited and not shown completely. Anyways, thanks for sharing. On the next LGR Tech Tales video, I would like to see the story on Packard Bell or even Compaq.
The BBC? They had nothing to do with why this was re-uploaded. But yeah, it's annoying, but no big deal!
Oh wow. I remember watching computery stuff on ME/U back in the day!
never heard of general magic before :OO so, thanks!
congrats on 400k subs!
Thank you!
I love Tech Tales.
I see another example of how the "so called" "Fair use" laws actually work... Forcing me to reconsider a project idea I had... Sorry it happened, but I don't mind re-watching and re-liking. :-)
Just watched the documentary ‘General Magic’ brilliant. As you say in the video, the vision just too WAY ahead of its time, like 30 odd years! But ye, if it wasn’t for General magic, I wouldn’t be watching or writing this comment right now.
Isn't it a bit ironic. General Magic disappeared again (when the video was down).
I'll get my coat.
why reupload?
The person who owned the rights to some of the old General Magic ads I showed was putting a copyright claim on it.
some peple...
YOU ARE SHOWING MY ADS TO THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE FOR FREE? YOU WILL REGRET THIS!
Oh for crying out loud! Really? Utooh spahetti-os! A '93 General Magic product ad in a LGR video....Zounds he must've been the owner of the company (as a little boy) all along.....wait....what's that you say, Mr.-Copywright-Claimer, YOU'RE the real owner of a 23 year old product? OH No! All that revenue from your ad for your cutting edge product is now gone...because Clint tricked us...it's just...unbelievable! How could the internet have let this happen? ;)
+Lazy Game Reviews that is ridiculous. Totally a fair use situation.
Hey, anybody remeber ALR? Advanced Logic Research. They introduced the first pentium machine in 1992, I think. I wonder what happened to them?