Finland adds the demoscene as a UNESCO intangible world cultural heritage

Re:Finland adds the demoscene as a UNESCO intangible world c... by bhouston on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @11:20AM (#22878760)

Hilarious. I wouldn't have expected that ever to happen.

So much talent in the Finish scene and they were so good at advertizing their accomplishments in a way that was energizing to fellow nerds.

It was the biggest reason I ended up getting so deep into computer graphics -- I wanted to be as "cool" as they were. How else could you be "cool" by sitting at your computer BBS chatting all night doing math and algorithms? Such an awesome time.

I know that mrdoob of three.js also got into coding via the demoscene.

(My old 1990's era demo scene stuff: https://benhouston3d.com/#High_School-Era_and_Earlier_Projec... https://hornet.scene.org/cgi-bin/scene-search.cgi?search=Azu... )

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Re:Finland adds the demoscene as a UNESCO intangible world c... by ionwake on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @06:28PM (#22883860)

I always had a man crush on mr doob as I spent years on three.js hoping he would notice my stuff but I never got around to publishing any of it I even spent 5 years on a three.js game Im still hoping to release

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Re:Finland adds the demoscene as a UNESCO intangible world c... by evere on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @08:19PM (#22884756)

Care to share any if your progress?

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Re:Finland adds the demoscene as a UNESCO intangible world c... by mrdoob2 on Thursday April 16, 2020 @04:12AM (#22887238)

Yeah! I want to see! :D

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Re:Finland adds the demoscene as a UNESCO intangible world c... by spiderfarmer on Thursday April 16, 2020 @04:43AM (#22887389)

Awesome.

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