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Drawings and animations, science and fiction (2002)

24 pointsby v4vvdqalmost 4 years ago

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st_goliathalmost 4 years ago
Chello used to be a local ISP that IIRC got gobbled up by UPC, or at least so I remember; the German Wikipedia is IMO a bit hazy here and implies that it might have been a UPC subsidiary to begin with. The first time I heard about Chello was when I was in high school and they just gobbled up a local ISP, inode.at. But none of that matters now anyway, since it was all part of UPC, which for couple years now is part of T-mobile, *<i>ehem</i>* &quot;Magenta&quot;, sorry. The whole consolidation of small, local ISPs into huge, international ones over the last decades is kind of crazy to think about.<p>The website itself seems to contain a list of mostly MS-paint style drawings of scientific, engineering and pseudo-scientific concepts (there are 3 lists devoted to perpetual motion machines), also I have no idea why graphene and &quot;UFO over Vienna&quot; are listed under &quot;Centrifugal Force&quot;. Most of the stuff on the site also feels vaguely familiar, probably from some German phpBB bards I was on at the time. I&#x27;m pretty sure some of the weirder stuff reference old in-jokes that I forgot about by now. Stumbling over chello.at and GW-BASIC sure brings back some memories.