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@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Silicon Graphics defined high-performance computing for visual effects and 3D graphics in the 90s. Their workstations powered CGI in Jurassic Park and Terminator 2, and they helped pioneer OpenGL, still a standard in graphics today.

Now barely a memory, only its website survives; 1 in a Trillion on the #WaybackMachine ⤵️
https://web.archive.org/web/19970601000000*/http://www.sgi.com/

#WaybackMachine #SiliconGraphics #CGI #TechHistory #3DGraphics

Image with text at the top that reads: "Wayback Machine Then and Gone" and "SGI.COM". Below are Wayback Machine captures of the Silicon Graphics SGI website from July 6, 1997, alongside a stylized computer window featuring a pixel art frowning face representing that the website is gone.
Image with text at the top that reads: "Wayback Machine Then and Gone" and "SGI.COM". Below are Wayback Machine captures of the Silicon Graphics SGI website from July 6, 1997, alongside a stylized computer window featuring a pixel art frowning face representing that the website is gone.
Image with text at the top that reads: "Wayback Machine Then and Gone" and "SGI.COM". Below are Wayback Machine captures of the Silicon Graphics SGI website from July 6, 1997, alongside a stylized computer window featuring a pixel art frowning face representing that the website is gone.
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