hey I've been watching you since i was in high-school, I even read your book, the nature of code, I learned Processing and P5.js from your videos (it was my first time playing with graphics) and I've had a lovely time programming along with you on all sorts of coding challenges. Thank you for all the fun times I've had building these neat things.
Oh no my man, throbbers came before the internet. Mosaic didn't come out until 1993, but King's Quest in 1984 had a throbber, and likely wasn't even the first adventure game that had one.
I loved Netscape so much, that animation brings back such nice memories. It was a great animation. I downloaded Netscape a few week ago to see if it still worked, it's still amazing lol it was nice having the loading bar at the bottom again for a minute. Netscape needs to make browsers again
Yeah… , I am that person… but wouldn’t the first example of a loading animation be the coloured bars/loading screens on the old 8-bit computers from the 80’s such as the Commodore64 and ZX Spectrum?
I wonder if there was a point where people would be frustrated becase the computer was using it's resources to load the animation rather than working on the actual task
What frustrates me with throbbers these days is that they are in 99% of cases completely decorative in web apps, because it's just an animated GIF. The throbber will continue throbbing, regardless of if the operation is continuing or has errored out, because it's completely decoupled from the logic. Even in many desktop apps they are equally decorative only, because the UI icon is rendering independently of any logic processing.
Definitely like my throbbers set to max stroke()
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I came here. For this comment I mean.
hell nah
hey I've been watching you since i was in high-school, I even read your book, the nature of code,
I learned Processing and P5.js from your videos (it was my first time playing with graphics) and I've had a lovely time programming along with you on all sorts of coding challenges.
Thank you for all the fun times I've had building these neat things.
The most famous animation used to be "Progress Bar" , it was eclipsed by "Buffering" around 2010
Oh no my man, throbbers came before the internet. Mosaic didn't come out until 1993, but King's Quest in 1984 had a throbber, and likely wasn't even the first adventure game that had one.
yeah, i really got this wrong, thank you for the reference!
Wow, yeah! I remember the Mosaic loading animation, and the original Netscape Navigator too.
Mind blowing, awesome
That throbber shader is beautiful
Maybe you'd argue they don't count, but there were flashing dot/ellipsis "throbbers" in command line systems that predated any form of GUI.
They count!!
Awesome content! I'll have to check out your code for the sand that's pretty cool! Thanks for the inspiration!!
The powder toy!
Seems like command line "throbbers" existed for a long time.
I used Mosaic on the Amiga back then the very first time. Later loved to use Netscape.
I need that falling sand video
It's coming! (maybe in ~1 week, no more than 2!)
Looking forward to it! I tried making one from scratch a few years ago but couldn't quite get it to fall naturally.
Epic
I loved Netscape so much, that animation brings back such nice memories. It was a great animation. I downloaded Netscape a few week ago to see if it still worked, it's still amazing lol it was nice having the loading bar at the bottom again for a minute. Netscape needs to make browsers again
Yeah… , I am that person… but wouldn’t the first example of a loading animation be the coloured bars/loading screens on the old 8-bit computers from the 80’s such as the Commodore64 and ZX Spectrum?
Oh, yes! This is a great reference!
I wonder if there was a point where people would be frustrated becase the computer was using it's resources to load the animation rather than working on the actual task
What frustrates me with throbbers these days is that they are in 99% of cases completely decorative in web apps, because it's just an animated GIF. The throbber will continue throbbing, regardless of if the operation is continuing or has errored out, because it's completely decoupled from the logic. Even in many desktop apps they are equally decorative only, because the UI icon is rendering independently of any logic processing.
Song?
mahlers 5th symphony, 4th movement
Thank goodness it didn't stick.
Niice
You are genius ❤