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The Mother of all demos - YouTube
The Mother of all demos - YouTube
Younger viewers may not be impressed by this, but those of us who came to the internet in our thirties will find this demonstration of a computer technology in 1968 unbelievable. Years before Pong and more than a decade before Space Invaders, the graphic interface, hypertext and a computer mouse. Point and click is older than Woodstock.
#computer#digital literacy#Social Dilemma
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The Mother of all demos - YouTube
Amazing 1960s Predictions About Satellites, Email, and the Internet — Paleofuture
Amazing 1960s Predictions About Satellites, Email, and the Internet — Paleofuture
Although people have a lot of fun with the predictions of the past that went wrong, it is astonishing to see how some predictions were right on the money. The February 17, 1962 issue of the Sunday comic strip Our New Age (in this case, from the Chicago Daily News) envisioned the fantastic advancements that the introduction of satellites would allow. Everything from the decline of "old fashioned mail" to the rise of video-conferencing from home was predicted by Athelstan Spilhaus, dean of the University of Minnesota's Institute of Technology and author of the comic strip.
#Social Dilemma#primary source#US II Unit 6: Vietnam and the Tumultuous 1960s (1963–1975)
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Amazing 1960s Predictions About Satellites, Email, and the Internet — Paleofuture