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This cutting-edge “Dial-up Internet” simulator enriches the web-browsing experience and promotes strong moral values even in a decadent Caligula-esque era!

Nov 18, 2018

Communication, Design, UI / UX

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Background: Part 1: As Internet speeds have increased, web sites have become more and more enormous (Example: Figure 1). Part 2: Additionally, people have become more and more accustomed to impulsively wasting time on the Internet. The issue: Here are the two problems that we can solve simultaneously: Enormous web pages are slow to…
Are you tired of your computer MYSTERIOUSLY doing things in stony silence? Bring back 1980s retro charm and monitor your computer for malware and spyware with this ONE INSANE AUDIO TRICK! It drove an entire island of monks to madness!

Jan 22, 2018

Computers, Design, Technology, UI / UX

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Background: In the past, you could tell what a computer was doing (to some extent) just by listening to it. Disk access would be accompanied by a classic floppy disk sound (or the “click” of a hard drive) The fan would spin up if the CPU was under high load. You could actually listen to network…