diff --git a/web/index.html b/web/index.html index 9cb72a0..39a62f9 100644 --- a/web/index.html +++ b/web/index.html @@ -37,13 +37,13 @@ grunts, taps, itches, I'd have magnetically recorded, at the same time, & translated into word or perhaps even the final xpressed thought/feeling wd not be merely word or sheet, but itself, the xpression, three dimensional-able to be touched, or tasted or felt, or entered, or heard or carried - like a speaking singing constantly communicating charm. A typewriter is corny!! + like a speaking singing constantly communicating charm. A typewriter is corny!!
- From Amiri Baraka, Technology & Ethos, http://www.soulsista.com/titanic/baraka.html + From Amiri Baraka, Technology & Ethos - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - This issue started from a single technical object: a Model 33 Teletype machine. The teletype is the +This issue started from a single technical object: a Model 33 Teletype machine. The teletype is the meeting point between typewriters and computer interfaces, a first automated translator of letters into bits. Equipped with a keyboard, a transmitter and a punchcard read-writer, it is a historical link between early transmission technology such as the telegraph and the Internet of today. Under @@ -82,8 +82,15 @@ piet zwart institute. xpub focuses on the acts of making things public and creating publics in the age of post-digital networks.
-It's a table, it's a converter, it's a look behind-the-scenes at what really happens when you type on a keyboard! + You know, when you press a key and the computer somehow magically knows what you meant to say? + Oh well, our buddy Javascript is here to break it down for you in all its nerdy glory. + + Get ready for some wild en-codings, including binary, hexadecimal, decimal, phonetic cyrillic, + and even the xpub1 emoji alphabet. 😈 + So kick back, relax, and let's dive into the wacky world of character en-coding. En-joy!
Inspired by "The Phantom of the Operator" documentary we watched in class,