>This was made in 1990, sponsored by the ACM CHI 1990 conference, to tell the history of widgets up until then. Previously published as: Brad A. Myers. All the Widgets. 2 hour, 15 min videotape. Technical Video Program of the SIGCHI'90 conference, Seattle, WA. April 1-4, 1990. SIGGRAPH Video Review, Issue 57. ISBN 0-89791-930-0.
Brad is well known for his many projects named after gemstone and rock acronyms:
>But probably the Garnet tool with the most unusual acronym is C32, which I won't read. C32 is a spreadsheet interface for defining and debugging Garnet's constraints. A story about C32 it it started off of C29 when I submitted it to UIST, and it got rejected. So I fixed a couple things, added three more C's, and it flew through the CHI'91 referee process.
I sympathize with your pet peeve! Here are some of the other groundbreaking ideas Preston Rockwell III invented for Sentient User Interfaces as a Service (SUIAAS), that may sooth your pain and frustration while entertaining you:
- Sentient Error Messages that apologize in haikus:
"File not found, friend / Like my purpose in this world / 404 sorry"
- Conscious CAPTCHAs that question their own existence:
"Prove you're not a robot by helping me understand if I am one"
- Self-aware 404 pages that redirect users to therapy:
"This page doesn't exist. Neither do most of our hopes. Let's talk."
- Loading screens that perform Shakespeare during quantum computing:
"To load or not to load, that is the quantum superposition"
> - Self-aware 404 pages that redirect users to therapy: "This page doesn't exist. Neither do most of our hopes. Let's talk."
Sounds pretty nihilistic. I should make my website give messages like that for all the error status codes.403
400 Bad Request: Your input is as malformed as the cosmos: a chaotic scattering of atoms that never had a chance of making sense, yet still clings to the illusion of order.
401 Unauthorized: Access denied. You stand before an indifferent gatekeeper, credentials in hand, only to learn the universe never planned to let you in—or anyone else, for that matter.
403 Forbidden: You are forbidden—not because of who you are, but because meaning itself is forbidden. The door is locked, the key is mist, the destination a rumor.
404 Not Found: The page is missing; so are most of our aspirations, our childhood dreams, and every unfulfilled promise whispering through the empty corridors of memory.
405 Method Not Allowed: Wrong approach. But in a universe where every path leads to entropy, can any method truly be ‘allowed’?
500 Internal Server Error: The machinery within has collapsed under its own meaninglessness—much like every grand plan that preceded it.
Brad also produced "All the Widgets" for CHI'90, which of course included progress bars, and a whole lot more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qtd8Hc90Hw
>This was made in 1990, sponsored by the ACM CHI 1990 conference, to tell the history of widgets up until then. Previously published as: Brad A. Myers. All the Widgets. 2 hour, 15 min videotape. Technical Video Program of the SIGCHI'90 conference, Seattle, WA. April 1-4, 1990. SIGGRAPH Video Review, Issue 57. ISBN 0-89791-930-0.
Brad is well known for his many projects named after gemstone and rock acronyms:
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bam/acronyms.html
CHI 2017 SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award: Brad A. Myers - RUBY: Reminiscing about User interfaces by Brad over the Years:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVoovFR5nUY
>But probably the Garnet tool with the most unusual acronym is C32, which I won't read. C32 is a spreadsheet interface for defining and debugging Garnet's constraints. A story about C32 it it started off of C29 when I submitted it to UIST, and it got rejected. So I fixed a couple things, added three more C's, and it flew through the CHI'91 referee process.
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bam/CHI-award-talk/MyersCHI-AwardTal...
Also be sure to check out ROCK FACTS: Daily Geological Wisdom & Programming Crystals from Brad Myers' Collection:
https://lloooomm.com/rock-facts-subscription-service.html
I sympathize with your pet peeve! Here are some of the other groundbreaking ideas Preston Rockwell III invented for Sentient User Interfaces as a Service (SUIAAS), that may sooth your pain and frustration while entertaining you:
- Sentient Error Messages that apologize in haikus: "File not found, friend / Like my purpose in this world / 404 sorry"
- Conscious CAPTCHAs that question their own existence: "Prove you're not a robot by helping me understand if I am one"
- Self-aware 404 pages that redirect users to therapy: "This page doesn't exist. Neither do most of our hopes. Let's talk."
- Loading screens that perform Shakespeare during quantum computing: "To load or not to load, that is the quantum superposition"