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• Phonograph Doll
  ...to the video's description, is from the 1980's and contains a "mini record player" inside that plays plastic records. One should note that this doll's struc
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• Tamagotchi
  The Tamagotchi was a small, egg-shaped, hand-held LCD video game that was created in Japan in 1996. It became wildly popular in Japan, ...urtured animals do “live” longer than neglected ones. After death, the player can reset the toy and begin again with a brand new Tamagotchi egg.
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• HD-DVD
  HD-DVD: High-Definition Digital Video Disc Videocassette tapes (VHS) dominated the home video market up until the mid 1990’s when DVDs, a major medium upgrade, were in
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• HyperCard
  ...990 and 1993. During the Claris years, a viewer-only version, the HyerCard Player, was created and included on all Macs instead of the basic HyperCard softwa ...ickTime movies started under the direction of Kevin Calhoun who was a main player in the development of the prototype HyperCard 3.0. The prototype was first
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• 3DO Interactive Multiplayer
  ...way’s similar observation that there are “two basic types of action in video games: machine actions and operator actions…acts performed by players” ...m’s hardware. The first 3DO model was square and looked similar to a VHS player, while the second model was sleeker and more contemporary looking. The phys
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• Macintosh TV
  ...he computer also had a video input port for a VCR, camcorder or video-game player and a coaxial port for a standard cable-TV hookup. The computer was equippe ...ed a year later by the Quadra 630, which allowed users to not only capture video sources using QuickTime, but also watch television through a resizable wind
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• Scopitone
  ...e were short 16mm films named after the modified jukeboxes they used to be player on. The first Scopitones were made in France in 1960. The ancestors of musi ...ms and, like a conventional jukebox, the customer was able to choose which video to watch, instead of whatever was conveniently loaded on the machine.
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• Text-Based Computer Games
  ...n allowing type to "withdraw from man the essential rank of the hand," the player utilizes mechanic type in order to dominate and win a game (Kittler, 199). ...he brain, typing commands as the mind configures a setting and decides the player's movements, which are executed through the fingers.
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• Nintendo Virtual Boy
  ...polygonal” game animation. Virtual Boy fits into the overall history of video games as a wholly transitional experiment. ...atch (1980) and Game Boy (1989) handheld systems and working on successful video game franchises such as ''Metroid''.
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• Multiphone
  ...aris and the surrounding suburbs, and acted as early examples of the music video. Several models were released in the United States, including the "Scopiton ...ox eventually defeated the Multiphone as the preferred coin-operated music player. When the Multiphone was created, its ability to give listeners a choice o
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• Optical Disc (First Generation)
  ...ration discs were capable of digital playback, but without the ability for video playback. The first generation of optical discs stand as a index of the tra ...Nimoy.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Leonard Nimoy demonstrating the new videodisc player. The fact that Spock is required to utilize this machine emphasized its hig
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• Sega Home Video Game Consoles
  ...ga home systems' death and its relation to the ongoing negotiation between video games' military and arcade oriented genealogy as they adapt to domestic set ...s an attempt to promote the archival and investigation of various obsolete video game technologies' historical importance to developing standards in the pro
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• Limewire
  ...e Gnutella network (a large P2P network) to allow users to download audio, video, images, and other files from others users who were also on the network. Li ...ntages not included in the free version, such as faster downloads, a video player, access to BitTorrent, and anti-malware protection. LimeWire Pro also gives
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• Jukebox
  ...Rock-Ola_1422.jpg|225px|thumb|right|Rock-Ola Jukebox Model 1422 (1946) See Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYYbcGkFC50]] ...them from replacing the live music preferred in public settings. Improved player pianos and other automatic instruments could provide tunes above the hum of
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• HD DVD
  HD-DVD: High-Definition Digital Video Disc Videocassette tapes (VHS) dominated the home video market up until the mid 1990’s when DVDs, a major medium upgrade, were in
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• Laserdisc
  Video and audio are stored on a Laserdisc (LD) as an analog signal. Just like a ...pular for mainstream consumers because they could only store 30 minutes of video per side. The frames of CAV discs correspond to actual film frames, and a
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