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I made a website but it's not 90s-feeling enough, could use your help
https://seznahegunma.org/ (visit through VPN or Tor ofc, but the way I have setup doesn't let me even see IPs lol)
I'm going for that Geocities or Angelfire feeling
Also if a Chinese speaker could tell me if I used the right word for "unity of opposites" that would be greatly appreciated 
I did not translate it yet but you can use the glosser at https://jboski.lojban.org/ to kinda read it if you want (the dictionary it uses is olddddd though)
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Hewlett—Packard's Spacehall was a 3D interactive motion controller targeted at users of Computer Aided Design/Manufacturing and Engineering (CAD/CAM/CAE) systems as well as 3D visualization and simulation applications. The controller's design and manufacture was by Spacetec IMC, who then licensed the design to other companies, including IBM and Hewlett-Packard.
The Spaceball allowed the user to move and rotate a simulated on-screen object as if they were holding it in their hand. Designers could thus build, modify, and inspect their designs using natural, intuitive hand gestures. This improvement in interactivity resulted in improved 'design comprehension' by the Spacehall user since the link between hand and screen was optimized via its sphere to map onto any 3D object's three canonical dimensions.
To further reduce time spent on repetitive gestures or keystrokes, Spaceball's accompanying software, SpaceWare, allowed all eight Spacehall function buttons to be mapped onto CAD program functions.
As described in a product brochure, Spaceball was used in conjunction with a mouse so that when interacting with an on screen 3D object the user would 'gently push, pull or twist the Spaceball's PowerSensor ball for smooth and dynamic manipulation'' of the object. Software to interface with the device was available for Windows and Unix, covering both major design platforms, either personal computers or more powerful workstations.
Several different companies had created similar commercially available devices, based on a user's manipulation of a sphere, as early as 1988. One of Spaceball's more interesting moments came during the NASA Mars Pathfinder mission in which a Spacehall controller was used to navigate the Sojourner rover from Earth. Using its spherical input, Spaceball enabled an engineer to push forward, pull back or twist side-to-side, manipulating the movements of the rover from their desktop 131 million miles away with a life-like six degrees of freedom.
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