LGR Tech Tales - General Magic: Creating the Cloud

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This episode covers the origin and demise of Apple spin-off company General Magic, and its impact on modern tech. Join me in LGR Tech Tales, looking at stories of technological inspiration, failure, and everything in-between!

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● Main sources for info:
"Magic Cap Cellphone Demo August 1995" by Andy Hertzfeld

"Bill Atkinson and General Magic" by TWiT Network

"The Video That Launched The Smart Phone Revolution" by David Hoffman

"What Is The Cloud - By AT&T" by David Hoffman

"Classic PC/TV - Sony Magic Link PIC-1000" by PC/TV

"Why Smart Executives Fail", book by Sydney Finkelstein

"The Most Important Dead Company in Silicon Valley?" by Michael Kanellos

"A History of Silicon Valley" by Piero Scaruffi

"Communicating in the Magic Kingdom" by Lorri Grube

"The DaveNet Letter" by Dave Winer

"Bill and Andy’s Excellent Adventure II" by Steven Levy

● Background music credits:
"Nautical 2" by Loscil

"Milinda," "Swampwalk" by Diode Milliampere

"S1gns Of L1fe - Stratosphere"

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These are my favourite LGR segments, but they must take you weeks to put together.

Henchman

I hope whoever designed General Magic's logo is still doing graphic design work. Because I like it very much.

pearofsalamanca

Your channel is absolutely top notch. Thank you for bringing your viewers such great information and perspective on the past. It's people like you that help bring us back from taking things for granted, and possibly educating the younger generations on where all these modern devices came from.

TheCgOrion

Tech Tales is an absolutely amazing series of videos and I'm so glad you keep making more!

Kellmachine

I think the next Tech Tales should be Compuserve.

It was everywhere back in the 90's.

stewartfullerton

"the general magic alliance" sounds like a cult.

NineteenEightyFive

I forgot I said on the original, but good stuff!

EposVox

I love these. I understand they may not get as many views as some of your others, but they are just so well done! The information is presented in an interesting, yet concise fashion. This really pulls in the attention of the viewer. I really hope you keep doing them. Thank you for the great content

eldoradomanchuria

I really love the presentation of these because you don't try to force any cringeworthy humor or shoehorn "witty" nerd references. I don't like propping people up by vaguely tearing others down, but that REALLY gets annoying and I love that you typically don't do that. Just a seamless, informative, naturally entertaining video that doesn't waste any time.

daserfomalhaut

From a tweet: Just a heads-up: the most recent LGR Tech Tales episode on General Magic has been taken down due to copyright issues with a few video clips.

now stop asking :p

pwnt

These tech tales are some of the best videos you create! Keep up the good work!

dw

Honestly, I'm just going to watch this agian just because it was uploaded agian. And i love tech tales.

silicongraphics

Keep the Tech Tales coming! Fave feature of your channel!!

grant

Love the Tech Tales series LGR, keep'em comin'. Reminds me of the glory days of G4

darkroom

Guess most of us viewers can agree how much in awe we find ourselves to see by how much the idea of what we know as the cloud today predates the term "(data) cloud" itself. But if that was not enough, to think that it even predates the internet turns what we thought we knew about computer science upside down (at least for a layman like me). Great work Clint!

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