The 'Freakish Radio Writings' of 1924

(centauri-dreams.org)

78 points | by JPLeRouzic 10 days ago

3 comments

  • monkpit 10 days ago
    Reminds me of the Aphex face:

    http://www.bastwood.com/?page_id=10

    Maybe he was inspired!

    • genewitch 9 days ago
      maybe if the author swings by:

      The Doom 2016 soundtrack contained a spectrogram image; and

      with RF you can transmit images in the same fashion. I am ~80% sure that fldigi can do it, but if not, there's other open source software that can do it as well. And this isn't like hellschreiber, it looks like the spectrogram images on the RF spectrogram. The images don't "go" as far as dedicated digital modes but it's still kinda fun to mess with people in your area (like within 100 miles or so, depending on band, time of day, and E[i]RP).

    • wileydragonfly 10 days ago
      Man, that is something I haven’t thought about in over two decades. I remember that circulating around early aughts internet. And I think there’s something to your theory.
  • BizarroLand 9 days ago
    Makes me think of Ultima: Worlds of Adventure 2: Martian Dreams, probably my second favorite Ultima Game

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima:_Worlds_of_Adventure_2:...

  • dpedu 10 days ago
    This website seems to break pinch-to-zoom in Chrome (on macOs). It just scrolls instead.
    • stordoff 9 days ago
      It does the same on Windows, and scrolling feels weird/slow. I blocked

          www.centauri-dreams.org/wp-content/themes/Divi/js/smoothscroll.js
      
      with uBlock as a workaround.