![]() I was particularly inspired by Bret Victor’s talk at the DBX conference, where he demonstrated a bunch of technologies from the 1970s which attempted to solve problems which we’re still wrestling with today, and effectively asked the question ‘Why haven’t we figured this stuff out yet?’, and more implicitly, ‘Why are people who are working on these problems today unaware of this earlier work? Why have we gone backwards?’. In other words: not making the same mistakes again-and-again due to a lack of historical perspective. So, why port emulators of outdated computers to the browser? Well, to start with, I feel very strongly about the importance of learning from the past.
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