Microsoft’s got a pretty stellar track record of terrible Windows infomercials. Some for the consumer, some internal, all pretty rough. This 1988 video showcases Windows/386, a fairly impressive upgrade to Windows that introduced multitasking among other features. The impressiveness of the upgrade does not come through in this video. What begins as a dry-but-corny corporate…
Five Things – 1.30.12
1. Sparky the Space Chimp – dreamsofspace shares this Australian children’s book about a space chimp. The artwork is pretty great – a lot of detail going into a not-very-detailed picture. The pictures themselves tell a different story than the actual history of the space chimps, whether intentionally or not, but it’s interesting to see how this effort was viewed by the rest of the world.
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