155 Years Before the First Animated Gif, Joseph Plateau Set Images in Motion with the Phenakistoscope
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155 Years Before the First Animated Gif, Joseph Plateau Set Images in Motion with the Phenakistoscope
Objects like clocks and automatons are in many ways the predecessors to modern digital technology. You needed to be both an engineer and an artist to build these kinds of machines—technology was often entertaining, inspiring, frightening and useful, all at the same time. In this sense, the path to the modern networked computer was paved with excruc
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