…but I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
HAL became operational on 12 January 1992 at the HAL Laboratories in Urbana, Illinois, as production number 3. Yep: it’s HAL’s birthday.
2001: A Space Odyssey and 2010: The Year We Make Contact are available on Amazon DVD. Both are awesome.
Addendum: a reader on Facebook pointed me to this lovely takeoff, which I hadn’t seen before, where Hal is run by Amazon’s Alexa. Superb!
Previous/Next Nav is Below.
Randy Cassingham is best known as the creator of This is True®, the oldest entertainment feature on the Internet: it has been running weekly by email subscription since early 1994. It is social commentary using weird news as its vehicle so it’s fun to read. Click here for the site — basic subscriptions are free.
Comments? Sorry: Facebook retired their commenting system (they didn’t even bother to alert me). Just as well, I suppose, but sadly there is no way to recover the many hundreds of comments made on this site. Lesson learned: never rely on someone else’s site for prime functions, especially “social media”!
Since this site is mostly retired now (maximum of one new post per month), I did decide that since all comments are now gone that I would not attempt to install any new commenting system. -rc
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