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| | | | | In 1974, Ted Nelson self-published a very unusual book. Nelson lectured on sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago to pay the bills, but his true calling was as a technological revolutionary. In the 1960s, he had dreamed up a computer-based writing system which would preserve links among different documents. He called the concept... | |
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retro365.blog
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| | | | | The short history of Piccadilly Software is in essence the story of how local computer stores around became game publishers in the very early '80s. Customers became clients, most for a short moment in time, and the hugely successful video arcade games became the inspiration. The local computer store became the gathering place of the... | |
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blog.hardcoregaming101.net
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| | | | | Crikey, I've left this a long time to post. If you're in the industry and receive Game Developer Magazine, maybe you noticed in the above ... | |
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callmephilip.com
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| | | Ted Nelson documented his efforts to create a computer network with a simple user interface via Project Xanadu in 1974-1975. book The Pledge The purpose of computers is human freedom. I am going to help make people free through computers. I will not help the computer priesthood confuse and bully the public. I will endeavor to explain patiently what computer systems really do. I will not give misleading answers to get people off my back, like "Because that's the way computers work" instead of "Because that's the way I designed it. | ||