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On its 50th anniversary, Bill Gates has published the original source code of Altair Basic - the first commercial software released by 'Micro-Soft'
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- Title
- Celebrating 50 years of Microsoft | Bill Gates
- Authors
- Bill Gates
- Word count
- 1938 words
Here's a direct link to the PDF containing the scanned source code, taken from the corresponding blog post.
Also note that Micro-Soft in the post's title is not a spelling mistake. As I learned today the company was actually called that back then and only dropped the hyphen later on. Thought that's a nice little quirk to include here. :D
Found someone who used OCR to scan the pdf and put the results in a git repo There's also a decompilation, I wonder how the two compare? Interesting stuff.
Nice find with regards to the decompilation. At a first glance the OCR looks very raw and faulty atm though. Doubt there has been any manual postprocessing.
I'm simultaneously captivated and annoyed by the effects on that website! The text-change hover effect in particular is neat. I assumed at first it just scrambled and de-scrambled the text in a paragraph on hover of the element, but it actually looks like it has a radius that spans elements? I'm going to have to dig into this a bit more, because that's very cool (and annoying!)
Yeah, the effect is fancy indeed. I see how it can be annoying, but for me personally the initial UX was better than with most sites these days, as its one of the few sites that work without me manually allowing 10 different external sources of javascript. (Got a noscript plugin running in my browser.) But I suppose the guy can afford to have all of that custom made and not include any third party js sources, trackers, or ads, so its not really a fair comparison.