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Early PC graphics were wild: A look back at the pre-GPU era

For most people, the story of graphics cards starts with Nvidia and AMD. The reality is quite different. Long before either of those two companies started to dominate the market, and long before GPUs ...
The New York Times

Ward Christensen, Early Visionary of Social Media, Dies at 78

Housebound during a 1978 blizzard, he and a friend began devising the first computer bulletin board, a forerunner of online services like Reddit, TikTok and Facebook. By Cade Metz Ward Christensen, a ...
insider.si.edu

The computer book : from the abacus to artificial intelligence, 250 milestones in the history of computer science / Simson L. Garfinkel and Rachel H. Grunspan

C. 2500 BCE: Sumerian abacus -- c. 700 BC: Scytale -- c. 150: Antikythera mechanism -- c. 60: Programmable robot -- c. 850: "On Deciphering Cryptographic Messages ...
Hackaday

Australia’s Silliac Computer

When you think about the dawn of modern computers, you often think about the work done in the UK and the US. But Australia had an early computer scene, too, and [State of Electronics] has done a ...