5 Million Dollars 1 Terabyte by Manuel Palou. A 1TB hard drive containing $5M worth of warez. (via New Aesthetic)

Visual Aesthetics in Early Computing (1950-80).

Love this xkcd. While teaching practical use (i.e. video editing) to kids who often reason and behave as if the computer is a black box with elves, fairies, unicorns and glitter inside, I’m always trying to offer a glimpse of the real beauty: Layer upon layer of progressive abstraction that allows for billions of very simple elements, such as what are basically on-off switches, to create something incredible complex, for instance a dramatic chipmunk.