Forty years ago, today, a demo of the first PC was given at the Civic Center in San Francisco. One thousand people witnessed the very thing that would eventually connect the entire globe together, no matter how remote the area.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
The Reason You Are Here And No, This Isn't Existence-Related
This post is not existence-related nor is it a koan. It isn't necessarily related to my blog and this sure isn't about what your parents did years ago to bring you into this world. This is why you are here-
Forty years ago, today, a demo of the first PC was given at the Civic Center in San Francisco. One thousand people witnessed the very thing that would eventually connect the entire globe together, no matter how remote the area.
Forty years ago, today, a demo of the first PC was given at the Civic Center in San Francisco. One thousand people witnessed the very thing that would eventually connect the entire globe together, no matter how remote the area.
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Sweet photo.
Flan,
Did you check out the original mouse? If you click the article, they included the origin of the mouse.
That's basically the computer I have now, but with iTunes.
That was back in the day when a computer could stop a bullet for you. I miss those days.
By the way, you've been tagged again and re-infected. Sorry.
Does it mean something that my word verification was "regawsm"?
Grant,
But I thought GM Media was going hi-def?
Bubs,
I'd threaten you, but I don't want to wind up in an Illinois jail for winter ; )
I sometimes do a lesson on Ray Tomlinson, the man who 'invented' email...
Paulie Decibels,
I'd dig a post on that.
where's al gore??
Quin,
Al is either spiking Dubya's coke with horse laxatives, or stalking Katherine Harris.
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