2 Aug
2022
2 Aug
'22
2:06 a.m.
> The greatest ever video about pre-WWW internet was
"Hyperland".
> a 1991 BBC documentary by Douglas Adams and Ted Nelson, and also starring Tom Baker.
> A few years BEFORE WWW, it predicted the future of the internet.
> https://archive.org/details/DouglasAdams-Hyperland
> If you want subtitles/captions, 5 years ago, I created an .SRT (captions file) of
it!
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4hCJm9ZEADCblVSVlBxdmZyREU/view?usp=drive…
> (400MB video with subtitles burned in)
> .SRT file:
> http://www.xenosoft.com/HyperlandCAPS_En_US_0_77.srt
On Mon, 1 Aug 2022, Ryan de Laplante via cctalk wrote:
Wow great find, thank you!
In 1991, Ted offered to set aside a studio quality tape of it for me.
But, we didn't see each other again for almost a decade, and then he
could no longer find a good copy.
So, I've had to make do with off-air copies that you can download from
the web.
Five years ago, with the help of a friend (my hearing had gone from mildly
Hard of Hearing to functionally deaf), I made a captions file for it.
Neither of us being British, we had some struggles with some words and
phrases, such as "ice lolly" ("popsicle" in USA).
And, of course, I welcome bug reports. Let me know if you find any errors
in the captions. AND/OR, if anybody can ever find a GOOD copy of it!
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com