Ethereum

Humble Beginnings

Collection

Ripples Through Time

Creator

sumofprimes

Description

In the early 1980s a child sits at an Atari plugged into a small TV. Programming books with dog-eared pages & cracked spines are strewn about. The rabbit holes is deep, and this is the edge... Over 2000x slower than modern PCs and with a screen resolution about 1/100th of a 4K display, it's only hints at the technology to come. Nonetheless, the light in his eyes reveals that the system before him is golden - a fount of infinite possibility. The air tingles with the sense that if you can imagine it, you can create it. Sound and graphics were high on the list, beyond "Hello, world!", offering more to engage the senses and share with others. A bit of math and programming logic later, first efforts produce string-art like output such as the central figure you see here. Exhilarated and energized, the night's coding has just begun...

Traits

Artist

sumofprimes

Era

1980s

Essence

Generative Beginnings

Token

Contract: 0xe651...1c4a
Token ID: 1

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