"Marking the 20 years since the release of Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground) music video (first open source video), its creator Stewart Smith shares his expanded writeup to mark the occasion. From the 00's hardware nostalgia (video was programmed in Applesoft BASIC on a vintage 1979 Apple ][+ computer) to avoiding a lawsuit, the writeup provides a fun trip down memory lane."
"I created the Jed video as a hobby; my self-initiated nights-and-weekends project for spring and summer of 2005. But the seeds of Jed were planted a few years earlier. The Sophtware Slump album was released in the spring of 2000, the end of my freshman year at the University of Connecticut. That was the peak of Napster and its MP3 file sharing service."
The Jed video began as a hobby project developed nights and weekends during spring and summer 2005. The video was programmed in Applesoft BASIC on a vintage 1979 Apple II+ and evokes 2000s hardware nostalgia. The project’s roots trace to the spring of 2000, around the Sophtware Slump release and the height of Napster-driven MP3 file sharing. Radiohead fans searched peer-to-peer networks for Kid A–related material, and collecting rare or unreleased audio files to share was common. The project navigated legal risks while celebrating retro computing and DIY open-source media culture.
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