The palindromic year of 1991 brought us many good things, including the composition of the wonderful song «El castellano y el tambor» (in English, «Castilian and the drum») by Ilan Chéster from his album Un mundo mejor (A better world), which I covered in a chapter in my books La conspiración del castellano and the English adaptation, The Castilian Conspiracy. Ilan released it on March of the following year. The same palindromic year brought us the first version of another fabulous song «Cómo hemos cambiado» («How we’ve changed»), sung by the then lead singer Sole Giménez of Presuntos Implicados, who later re-released it independently, and she and I discussed it when I interviewed her on CapicúaFM in 2014. Perhaps more known by a higher number of people outside of the Castilian-speaking world is QuickTime, also released in 1991, which many audiovisual creators have in our DNA. Joe Quesada of the YouTube channel joepgk just released a tribute 19:10 short documentary, called QuickTime’s fall from grace, which we should all watch, appreciate and click on the Thumb’s Up symbol, (Unicode U+1F44D).
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Thank you to Joe Quesada of the YouTube channel joepgk for this excellent history, compressed into 19:10. QuickTime is still in our DNA, whether we use it anymore or not.
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La caída en desgracia de QuickTime, un breve documental de Joe Quesada, de joepkg
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