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Who Were the Women Who Pioneered Early Computer Art?

“It’s just like planning a dinner,” the renowned computer scientist Grace Hopper once quipped about computing in a 1967 issue of Cosmopolitan. “You have to plan ahead and schedule everything so it’s ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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6 Nostalgic Computer Noises That Shaped Our Digital Childhood

You may not have noticed if you're a little younger, but computers these days are just so quiet—not that I really have a complaint about that. Silent computers are better for concentration or to enjoy ...