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Seymour Cray, founder of the early super computer company, dug tunnels (by hand, for fun) under his Wisconsin home. He said "elves" visited him underground, whispering suggestions to complex computing problems.

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a french friend educated me about MINITEL - the internet before the internet in France. Launched in 1982, people could book train tickets, browse business information, and look up phone numbers. In 2009, you still had 10 million active connections. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel

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Pizza Hut was the first major food chain to let you order online. It went live in Santa Cruz in 1994, but was also a bit of a gimmick since all orders would go to a single central location, and then faxed to corresponding locations

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summed-area tables for texture mapping (1984) by franklin crow texture-map computations can be made tractable through use of precalculated tables which allow computational costs independent of the texture density. the first example, the “mip” map, uses a set of tables containing successively lower-resolution representations filtered down from the discrete texture function. An alternative method using a single table of values representing the integral over the texture function rather than the function itself may yield superior results at similar cost

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https://x.com/RickRubin/status/1893375684803789001

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Apple TimeBand (1990s) The TimeBand was a wearable PDA prototype and a precursor to the Apple Watch. The device was featured in the 1997 book: Apple Design: The Work of the Apple Industrial Design Group

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35 years of Adobe Photoshop First released on February 19, 1990. https://youtu.be/oPlVmMUclPo?feature=shared

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If someone launched this as a Kickstarter today, it would be funded so fast. https://swling.com/blog/2021/03/the-sony-fx-300-jackal-a-holy-grail-technological-marvel-of-the-late-70s/

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Do Artifacts Have Politics? — Langdon Winner, 1980. MIT Press https://www.jstor.org/stable/20024652

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ATARI demonstration centres, showcasing their 400 & 800 models.

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I would love to make an NES game one day and flash it to a physical cartridge and play it on an original NES. https://pubby.games/nesfab.html

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Apple’s proprietary alternative to Ethernet in the 80s. https://computer.rip/2025-02-02-residential-networking-over-telephone.html

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SGI Onyx2 (1996), Silicon Graphics with 8 MIPS R10000 CPUs, 16GB RAM and two graphics pipelines. Up to 16 racks could be connected to act as a single computer

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