Primitive Code

10 responses to “Primitive Code”

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   benjiman

   Jun 21, 2005 at 11:22 pm

   Wow. Great shot.

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   Victor1

   Jun 22, 2005 at 12:05 am

   what’s it walking on?

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   jurvetson

   Jun 22, 2005 at 1:03 am

   a 1960s era core memory board, the hand-wired precursor to memory chips.

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   davidmccabe

   Jun 22, 2005 at 3:47 am

   So *that’s* what makes computers work! The little men are ants!

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   sweet thing

   Jun 22, 2005 at 4:15 am

   I used to think that these little guys and thier ability to crash early vaccum tube computers by crawling around the hot bits, were the source of the popular term for programming faults.

   Turns out that the term has been around since 1878 and can be claimed by Edison as an early adopter.

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_bug#Etymology

   Here is a picture of the first bug that became a bug

   

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   _California

   Jun 22, 2005 at 10:08 am

   Amazeing! Love this shot

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   Nell M

   Jun 22, 2005 at 5:54 pm

   The detail is awesome, you can see the hairs on the ant’s body. I love the juxtaposition.

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   Vanita

   Jun 22, 2005 at 7:51 pm

   Do you think the mound understood when he told them about the sights he saw on his walk?

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   Victor1

   Jun 23, 2005 at 1:10 am

   yes, and they’re all amazed that we are THAT far behind!

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    _rebekka

    Jul 6, 2005 at 8:19 pm

    ugh, this reminds me of a time i stepped in an anthill as a kid in florida and my legs were covered in bites. hate these things. Excellent macro however. especially the non-greenishness of it:p

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