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Started by Vekseid, June 13, 2011, 02:24:45 AM

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Vekseid

Or, the beginning of modern computing as we know it.

Stuff you see demoed here:

- The mouse
- Windowing
- Hypertext
- Links
- E-mail
- Word Processing
- Etc.

It's pretty impressive to see all of this, forty years ago.

http://www.1968demo.org/web.html

http://www.1968demo.org/

Harley

I only watched just a little bit of the beginning, but that is...  Pretty friggin' amazing. 

Asgard

Wow that is amazing to see how "modern" all of this is....

jaybee55

Erm... Some of us were actually getting our first exposure to computers in 1968 (in 2nd grade on a field trip to MIT) and, therefore, consider that a part of the "modern" era.  Some of us were programming in LISP on DEC PDP-10 equipment only a few years after that.

*Sigh* Makes me feel old :-(
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Vekseid

Quote from: jaybee55 on March 19, 2012, 07:36:29 PM
Erm... Some of us were actually getting our first exposure to computers in 1968 (in 2nd grade on a field trip to MIT) and, therefore, consider that a part of the "modern" era.  Some of us were programming in LISP on DEC PDP-10 equipment only a few years after that.

*Sigh* Makes me feel old :-(

I remember my math teacher commenting about the look I gave him when he commented about 'newer programming languages like C and Pascal'... both of which, being older than I am, I have a hard time considering 'new'. Compared to say, php, java, ruby.

Or me commenting on the FORTRAN manual I was given, which discussed punch-card etiquette. I got a lot of looks for that one >_>