A Vibe Archeologist’s main job is to dig through the past, and although I’m not going back to the Bronze Age this time…
While rummaging through my repos, I found my old CV website, from the dawn of the Flash era. Of course, the site no longer worked, and all its Flash content was dead, so once again, Claude helped restore the memories. Some links were missing “.html”, but the real help was pointing me toward … a program that can play Flash content.
As a bonus, it even made an English version of the site. So if you’re curious about the early experiments of a not-so-young developer, go ahead!
Work in progress never fade away!
There’s one thing I’d like to highlight:
Szimbi
AstraZeneca wanted an interactive website for children as part of a campaign. Back then, making an animation that long in Flash was pretty difficult—at least for me—so I built an animation editor. All the site preserves of it now is its indecipherable instruction set of famous - never published - slash animation language. You could type the entire program into a single input field.
This little program starts the menu, and clicking the dog brings you here to dev.to.
,,stop,outAll,0,menuIn,in,fiu,in,kutya,button,kutya,url,dev.to,end
I haven’t watched TV in a very long time, and I wouldn’t really recommend it to anyone. Whenever I watch a film, my “what is the author trying to say?” sensor kicks in immediately. Take Odysseus, for example, which got plenty of criticism for being historically inaccurate. Why was Helen of Troy played by a Black actress? Why did his fleet consist of just three ships? Why did the ships look like Viking ships? Why did they sail west at the end, following the sun? Why does the Greek king look like Batman and Darth Vader rolled into one?
The film itself gives us a clue by repeatedly bringing up the Sea Peoples as the threat of the time. But the deeper answer lies in the way our history education has been steered. At least here in Hungary, the Greeks of Homer’s time and the Greeks of Odysseus’s time were neatly blended together, as if there had been a continuous transition. Yet the events of the Trojan War are dated to 1184 BC, and not long afterward, the entire Bronze Age civilization collapsed. The Greeks lost their knowledge of Linear B and couldn’t read or write for centuries. Homer then composed his works around 725–675 BC, when writing had returned and society had reorganized into city-states.
On top of this, there’s the theory that the work isn’t just about the Trojan War as passed down through legends, but also about a Bronze Age voyage during which the early Greeks may have discovered the American continent. In this reading, there were three ships because they symbolize Columbus’s three ships, and they looked like Viking ships because the Vikings were the first to discover America.
Anyway, here’s a video if anyone is interested in the topic… Sorry for wandering so far off track, but I don’t always stay within IT, and I wouldn’t recommend that to anyone either.
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