do you know what's CGI? (web history personal story)

[Grant Edwards]

On 2011-01-15, Sherm Pendley <sherm.pendley at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Captain Obvious" <udodenko at users.sourceforge.net> writes:
>
>> XL> ... i recall, i stopped doing Mathematica in 1998 because it's a
>> XL> career dead-end as a programing lang, and dived into the utterly
>> XL> idiotic Perl & unix & mysql world. (See: The Unix Pestilence ??? Xah
>> XL> Lee's Computing Experience (Impression Of Lisp from Mathematica).)
>>
>> I guess you're calling "idiotic" everything you're too lazy to understand.
>
> That's Xah for you.
>
>> XL> today were under 10 in the 1990s. They wouldn't know what was CGI, and
>> XL> no amount of explanation can tell them exactly it was like, because it
>> XL> has become HISTORY ??? if you didn't live it, you can't feel it.
>>
>> CGI is still used in some places today, hello?
>
> Yeah, James Cameron made a *ton* of money using it to make Avatar.

Too bad he couldn't have used it to make a better movie.

Did we really need "Furngully" avec 3D sans funny?

-- 
Grant