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• Flatness
  ...as a purely practical use of flatness, the way in which data is stored for computers has become deliberately flat. While machine-readable data was stored on som
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• Minitel
  ...resting factor to consider considering the extremely high cost of personal computers. ...ich was accessing the Minitel network. This sets them apart from personal computers which are now used to access the internet, and provides for safer informati
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• NeXT Step
  ...P was now sold in conjunction with different hardwares (i.e. NEXTSTEP/NeXT Computers (black), NEXTSTEP/Intel (white), etc.) (Engel). ...(the computer had all of 4k of memory) it became one of the first personal computers to be mass-produced” (Munarriz). The Apple II was released shortly after,
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• Peruvian Quipu
  ...nces that function in a similar fashion to the binary language employed by computers. (Urton 140)
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• Credit Card Imprinter
  ...e fusion of multiple systems of verification to be read by both humans and computers. In a financial climate whose biggest obstacles to growth were the often c
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• Hollerith Punch Card
  ...entative of the alienation and dehumanization that accompanied the rise of computers, inspiring both a movie and a novel of the same title (Disney). The phrase
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• Stickerbooks
  In the digital age of computers, a new generation of sticker collectors has emerged. The Bumper Sticker ap
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• Viewmaster
  ...ith the 3 Yr. Olds." Amazon.com: Online Shopping for Electronics, Apparel, Computers, Books, DVDs & More. 29 Dec. 2008. Web. 04 Oct. 2010. <http://www.amazon.co
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• Black box
  ...of an artifact- should be understood as both literal (in the case of most computers, including the [[NeXT Step]]), as well as metaphorical in regards to the ar ...es are taken for granted. QWERTY is an example of a black boxed aspect of computers, although multiple attempts from its inception have tried to pry open this
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• Car Phone
  ...o work when not at work. The car phone, in conjunction with early personal computers, marked the beginning of a generation of technology based on the idea of co
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• BeOS
  ...erminals as they started to move their communications and expressions onto computers. BeOS was the first machine to bundle video, audio and image editing with
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• Secretarial Letter Dictation
  With the popularization of personal computers and word processing, this separation of composing and typing has again merg
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• Hip Pocket Records
  ...people are able to carry music with them everywhere in their iPods, laptop computers, and cellular phones.
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• Virtual boy
  ...evious Nintendo consoles or the large, cumbersome joysticks that came with computers, the Virtual Boy controller had a dual grip with two sets of directional bu
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• Tamagotchi
  ...riety of virtual pets ‘living’ on computer-game platforms and personal computers have been developed. They have apparently ‘evolved’ from the simple dot
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• Picturephone
  ...its capabilities for the future. The Picturephone will be able to dial up computers and be used as a computer display to show balance sheets, stock market pric
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• Analog/Digital Transition
  ...ry for the full transition to digital to really take effect. With personal computers, DVDs and CDs, the Internet and online communication, digital phone network .... [and] also required distinctive methods for storage . . . but now, with computers, we can store all kinds of information with a single digital medium. . . .
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• Ramelli's Bookwheel
  ...day's age, we want to be able to multitask as much as possible. When using computers, it is no different. It used to be that you needed to open up separate wind The information technology and need for a vast view of things has called for computers to be capable of being set up with multiple screens. Some people have two,
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• HyperCard
  HyperCard was first released in 1987 by Apple Computers and was an object-oriented Hypermedia system featuring the Hypertalk progra ...concept had been linked to a specific definition pertaining exclusively to computers, and the first Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia was held by the Assoc
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• Acoustic Coupler
  ...with a telephone and a modem to create an internet connection between two computers, using telephony as a method of data transport. Invented in 1964, the devi ...ts atop a modem that both emits and receives tones from the interconnected computers, encodes and decodes those tones to and from binary, and then passes bits o
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• 3DO Interactive Multiplayer
  Like most computers and home consoles, the 3DO is completely encased in an opaque (black, in th ...ir interests and needs (i.e. how to attach peripherals developed for other computers or consoles to the 3DO), as well as other 3DO-related topics. The group is
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• Macintosh TV
  ...was still expensive in comparison, and did not run as fast other Macintosh computers available at the time. (Heid, 1994) ...y, QuickTime was only two years old and by 1993, standard in new Macintosh computers. The Macintosh TV did not provide users the ability to capture QuickTime mo
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• Euphonia Speaking Machine
  ...man beings, something that would later lead to development in robotics and computers. The Euphonia failed to preserve the human causing it to fall out of favor
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• Cel Animation
  Starting in the 1980's, computers began to be used to compliment live-action footage with "special effects."
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• Reverse Polish Notation
  ...ns. This simplifies the order of operations for imputing calculations into computers and calculators. While RPN was popular for both scientific and business cal ...idea of recursive stacks which allowed for more efficient memory usage in computers (Burks).
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• Jacquard Loom
  ...diagrams, regardless of whether they control printing presses or mainframe computers, may yield historical traces of the unknown called the body" (Kittler, xl).
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• Textual Closure (Formal)
  In the late 20th century, the adoption of computers for word processing has thrown the formal closure of the print form into qu
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• Optical Disc (First Generation)
  ...pock is required to utilize this machine emphasized its high-tech nature. "Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under th
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• Colossus Computer
  ...opes of serving their country in a wartime effort. The early code-breaking computers, thus, "sprang from the imaginative, sometimes desperate, often improvised In total, there ended up being ten Colossi computers, the original Mk 1 and Mk 2, and eight replications of the Mk 2. The Coloss
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• Cybiko
  [[Image:1cybikos.jpg|300px|thumb|left|Cybiko, Inc. sold millions of hand held computers at their height of popularity]] ...bility made places like schools and malls hotspots for the trendy handheld computers. (Gwin)
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• Sega Home Video Game Consoles
  ...reat of absent technologies” (Burrill 6), including home video games and computers, which recontextualized video gaming's arcade and military origins through
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• Sony Walkman
  ...and missiles, Japan became one of the world’s leading producers of cars, computers, and other types of “high-tech” equipment.”(Chow 2006, 34) By reversi
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• Limewire
  ...e. This allowed the user to view all of the shared files on other user's computers, so that one could download several more songs very quickly. Version 3.5, r
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• Apple Newton
  ...s solely in the development of the Mac OS and Macintosh desktop and laptop computers. ...assistant” and it helped shape the form factor for later PDAs and tablet computers. Most consider Apple’s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone iPhone], [ht
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• Dirty Media
  ...Apple designs in California, the materials required to operate the complex computers inside must be harvested from the ground, often at great expense to the env ...make up over half the material in the world’s approximately one million computers. A typical desktop computer can contain nearly thirty pounds of metal, and
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• Electric Typewriter
  [[Category:Computers]]
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