If Google were invented in the '80s...

A programmer (mass:werk) made a real working 80s search engine after seeing this video: Http://www.masswerk.at/googleBBS/
Download the source code (QuickBASIC/QB64) over here: http://www.squirrel-monkey.com/google...

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[JlipperRoblox]

Am i banned from watching your videos?

[SquirrelMonkeyCom]

Nope, I actually like viewers. :-)

[SquirrelMonkeyCom]

You're lucky. As an American, you don't need to learn the grammar terminology. The rules are already preprogrammed in your head. I need to learn every word, every syntactic and phonological rule. According to my grammar book, the irrealis moods are 'the main set of grammatical moods that indicate that a certain situation or action is not known to have happened as the speaker is talking'. Some languages have a lot of levels of unreality, so I shouldn't complain that I chose to learn English. ;-)

[SquirrelMonkeyCom]

My native language is Dutch and I am learning English, but I still think that the title is a correct sentence because the sentence is in the irrealis mood ("John would eat if he were hungry"). Although the morphology of the verb 'were' says it's plural, it still is singular (3rd person) but in the irrealis mood.

[SquirrelMonkeyCom]

The source code is included, under the video. It is written in QuickBASIC. I only programmed the graphics shell and I recorded it in DOS-Box to make this video. It is easier for me than using software like After Effects. The video made many magazines and newspapers, including The Huffington Post, Time and Wired.

[NatapixAS]

source code??? you wrote it? i would have done VFX to make it look like that (animation)

and you know his engine "appeared" in Israel's official newspaper a while back, in the technology section

[originaldudeman1183]

iTs still funny video because its true. The internet use to be for us nerds. You couldn't click on a window.

[originaldudeman1183]

Say it however you want. Most americans do not use grammar. were is better than was because google was not in the ieghties. I would have phrased it "If google was possible in the eighties.".

[pianoman74]

Even more exactly, it's a relict from the days of yore, i. e. an old subjunctive. Elderly people still use this "so that it be changed...", but it sounds very formal; still, it shows a good language style, and a will to maintain the beauty of language. Just like an elder French woman I know who still uses the obsolescent subjonctif imparfait. What can I say. It sounds very much like the "fine art of speaking". And way better than the degenerated "English" of nowadays.

[Aaron Gentry]

A-Team porn hub...Heh

[JCovable]

This is RADICAL

[Ivan Rastapovici]

lame. it doesn't say where to get the latest 8-bit warez. or about the hottest eleet ASCII graphix groups.

[martpast1]

if I were a richman"(FIDDLE(R) ON THE ROOF)----in this song he says about not real situation=so it's the same.

as i remember--Google wasnt invented then, so ...