Bach to the Future

I suspect that, like the aeroplane makers I mentioned earlier, this is an all-male preserve. A man has taken an obsolete computer running on floppy discs. Then he's added 3 more floppy drives. Then he's used each disc's capacity to play 4 notes of music to make the computer play Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.

That's a lot of work to make something sound quite bad. So why am I so impressed?



Here's what it should sound like.

Save our Nerds

All subcultures are appropriated, hollowed out and reoriented for the purposes of capitalism. This is just true - and Dick Hebdige wrote about it a long time ago. But I guess we don't care about it much when it's somebody else's subculture. I got it around 1992-1993, when Indie became Britpop and a world was lost. Other may feel that Topshop selling metal band t-shirts to townies was pretty insulting. Now this guy feels it's been done to nerds. True - but so late: I'd guess Weird Science started the rot in 1985. The Big Bang Theory is simply the coup de grace.