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gilears · 3 years

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not to leech off of other anon, i’m a diff one (the og “shoutout to you for” if it matters!!) but another thing these fics/ppl defending fics saying “OH FABRIZ IS QUEERPLATONIC THEN” never seem to grasp is the erasure of fabian’s blatant sexuality and concept of love. like, we KNOW he’s canonically involved with aelwyn. fabriz would either have to be an open relationship (it wont be because then they cant just make riz a monogamous gay boy in disguise) or they would need to wrestle with topics beyond not only caricature of personality, but actual relationship stuff. like why is fabian WITH aelwyn? he loved her antagonism, aloofness, wit. how has love been modeled for fabian??? his father proposed to his mother for taking his eye out and up until the freshman finale, she had been an alcoholic for what?? most of his life?? i feel like there’s such an interesting arc and fundamental understanding of fabian’s perceptions of affection in the current state of things and it feels like forcing him into the “insecure rich boi likes his feral aro/ace goblin friend, settles for gay monogamy under the guise of QP” gets rid of not only the other amazingly interesting things other anon said abt the characters, but also pays no attention to the depth of love language that the PCs and Brennan have worked hard to give.

idk if that made sense, im trying but the thought is a lil amorphous

oh god i will say ive never personally come across that take myself (i do everything in my power to avoid seeing f*briz content<3) but thats.......... 🧍‍♂️ wild. i was a competitive gymnast for 10 years and even i wouldnt bend that much to make a ship happen

you bring up a really interesting point about how love has been modeled for him!!! ive been thinking a lot about comphet fabian too and i think that is definitely!!! something to think about in that lens!!! wow you guys really are just coming in here with these thoughtful analyses i am so glad i have become a beacon for that? thank you so much.

but anyway bars YEAH!!!! the cast puts so much love and care into crafting these characters, its so sad to see people being so reductive about it rip

#anonymous #ask #thank u!!!!!!! love this!!!!!

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artofthemindblog · 7 years

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“In an extreme view, the world can be seen as only connections, nothing else. We think of a dictionary as the repository of meaning, but it defines words only in terms of other words. I liked the idea that a piece of information is really defined only by what it's related to, and how it's related. There really is little else to meaning. The structure is everything. There are billions of neurons in our brains, but what are neurons? Just cells. The brain has no knowledge until connections are made between neurons. All that we know, all that we are, comes from the way our neurons are connected”

— Tim Berners-Lee, Weaving the Web

Nick Briz on the the Philosophy of the Early Internet Pioneers. Source

In order to understand why the web browser is the Internet's gift to artists, by which I mean in order for us to really take advantage of what it's got to offer us, we need to understand where browsers came from and the deeply interlinked ideas of all the radical thinkers who influenced it.

Meanwhile a team of some of my favorite computer people of all time, known as a learning research group, formed at Xerox PARC: Alan Kay, Adele Goldberg, Dan Ingalls, and others envisioned a world where computers would be very personal machines that you could carry around in your bookbag. These Dynabooks as they called them wouldn't be your typical terminal; it would be a dynamic medium for creative thought. it would be graphical, you'd use a mouse, you didn't have to know how to program or even what you wanted to do with the computer because the system itself would be a place to learn and explore.

The Xerox PARC folks didn't just write about these ideas; they actually produced that system, and called it Small Talk. One of the first object oriented programming languages and the first real graphical user interface:

“In terms of techniques for accessing information a key presentation technique we use is to divide up the display screen into rectangular areas or parts, that people like to call windows, and so their windows onto information.The primary kind of window that we like to talk about is one that we call browser; we do this because too often we think of computers as being very precise machines in which you have to precisely say ‘I want this’ or that’ and you get it back, exactly what you ask for. But the nice quality of a library is that you can walk around looking for something specific but as you're doing it you find other things. That's what browsing was all about.”

-Adele Goldberg

The browser was a curiosity driven interface: multiple windows, copy paste, small incremental changes; these are all common place now, but it wasn't how people use computers back then.

One day though she warned her superiors that it would be a bad idea, Adele Goldberg was forced to share all the details about the new system with a now-infamous visitor to Xerox PARC; Steve Jobs, who would later quickly borrow many of their new concepts, as would Bill Gates, to make the first commercially available home computers with graphical user interfaces. They of course only borrowed all the ideas which would help them brand the computer as a friendly sort of household appliance for consumers, but they would leave out some of the most important ideas; like the fact that the graphical user interface wasn't meant to obfuscate code,to hide it from the user like it was used in Windows and Mac. It was meant to augment the code, to help you program: Small Talk was first and foremost a creative coding environment.

Apple and Windows would also lose sight of the new meta media concept; instead they would generally imitate old media: movies music and books would eventually just become movs, mp3s, and PDFs on the computer, not all that different from their analog counterparts. In contrast, to Kay and Goldberg, the computer was a new active medium which could:

“respond to queries and experiments so that the message may involve the learner in a two-way conversation. This property has never been available before except through the medium of an individual teacher. We think the implications are vast and compelling (…) a new kind of medium would have been created: a metamedium, whose content would be a wide range of already existing and not yet invented media.”

- Kay and Goldberg

But I would be remiss not to mention one of the web browsers biggest influence is arguably one of the most radical computer thinkers of all time, right up there with Ada Lovelace; Ted Nelson. While Small Talk was being developed Nelson was working on another piece of software called Xanadu, a program so novel it introduced a whole set of new ideas into the computer world, most notably hypertext. These days when we hear “hypertext” we probably immediately think of the internet but these weren't as related at the time.

Neslon’s Hypertext or hypermedia idea was about the computer as a space for what he referred to as a “generalized media format”, which was a lot like Kay and Goldberg’s metamedia. Xanadu wasn’t a programming environment like Small Talk, but like Small Talk it was about framing the computer as a tool for augmenting our thinking; as a friendly space for discovery where the user was both a reader and a writer, rather than simply a consumer of a new high-tech household appliance.

Influenced by earlier thinkers, most notably Vannevar Bush, Ted Nelson’s Xanadu, like Small Talk, was a system for exploring. Before the web, we generally organized information sequentially; we put things into categories, indexed them numerically and alphabetically. Xanadu wouldn't be a collection of discrete books indexed in a card catalog, it would be a mash-up of all human knowledge. You could be reading an article which had embedded in it, or more accurately transcluded into it, another piece of media which you could click on and follow back to its original source, which itself would have another piece of media you could click on and follow back to its original source: with each click you'd make an associative jump to another piece of content navigating. Xanadu had more in common with the way we may think, jumping from thought to associated thought, than the way we might typically organize information.

With help from his collaborators Robert Cailliau and Nicola Pellow, Tim Berners-Lee realized that if you took hypertext and connected it to the Internet both of these things were going to blow up. Together in and around nineteen ninety they invented the World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee created a protocol which would bring hypermedia documents to the Internet: HTTP or hypertext Transfer Protocol. He also defined a format for structuring these hypertext documents called HTML, hypertext markup language, a simple metamedia document structure that could be text, images, later video and audio, and all forms of interactive media all at the same time. As in; all this stuff in the same type of file. Lastly he created an addressing scheme for finding these HTML documents online, which he describes as the most fundamental innovation of the web: the URI or URL…

And so that's the web. The web isn’t a collection of websites necessarily, nor any particular browser or server; it's less a specific thing and more a way of doing things. Quote:

“what was often difficult for people to understand about the design was that there was nothing else beyond URIs, HTTP, and HTML. There was no central computer controlling the Web, no single network on which these protocols worked, nor even an organization anywhere that ran the Web. The Web was not a physical thing that existed in a certain place, it was a space in which information could exist”

-Tim Berners-Lee

And Berners-Lee took special care design it in such a way as to allow for the widest degree of participation possible.

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