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Laine Nooney @ πŸ”₯πŸ—‘οΈπŸ”₯

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find me on 🟦☁️ associate prof computers + video games @mccnyu / 🍎 The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal πŸ”— / they/them

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Laine Nooney @ πŸ”₯πŸ—‘οΈπŸ”₯
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not an original observation, but its incredible how much internet infrastructure was built by chill dudes with tempered goals and how much this space has been ruined by pissy edgelords and boss babies trying to create inescapable capitalist finger traps
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this is a 3D movie Zuck and crew has made about a fictional technology they think they're going to invent. This is not a proof of concept and it sure as shit isn't a prototype.
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WATCH: Sneak Peek at Facebook metaverse
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i just always want to talk more about the Windows 3.1 "Hot Dog Stand" color theme
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Don't ever let tech companies convince you they know what the future is
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β€’ @Meta actively slimmed down its virtual world operations. β€’ @Disney + @Microsoft are both closing their Metaverse departments. β€’ @Apple looks to have given up on its virtual reality headset. β€’ Tinder abandoned its virtual world dating plans.
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Laine Nooney @ πŸ”₯πŸ—‘οΈπŸ”₯
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Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn: what if we had a universal protocol so all networks could talk to each other, that would be cute Mark Zuckberg: what if i could piss advertisements into your eyeballs
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what the fuck is wrong with people
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"Families Confused by Computers" is my favorite genre of early 80s stock photography
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Since 2020 I've been getting holiday Bitmoji greetings from the wrong number. Darnise, are you out there??
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fuckin dying
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Laine Nooney @ πŸ”₯πŸ—‘οΈπŸ”₯
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4 years
I want you to remember that the annual salary of a Certified Nursing Assistant--one of the most common roles in nursing homes overflowing with COVID, and one that is 50% staffed by women of color--is $26,000.
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@aspirational_no true that lack of govt support for innovation contributes to market brain worms. but most edgelords were already Ivy League rich boys. folks like gates, zuck, bezos, musk weren't hardup bootstrappers looking to improve their working conditions. they never had working conditions!
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Laine Nooney @ πŸ”₯πŸ—‘οΈπŸ”₯
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4 years
its like they giving out spines at the 99 cent store today
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Reddit bans subreddit group "r/DonaldTrump" via @CurrentStatus
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i've been a broken record on this forever: the reason VR flops, over and over again, is because it misunderstands the scale of demand it puts on people. most of us dont have buckets of uninterrupted free time, or giant spaces to roam with VR googles on our heads.
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Laine Nooney @ πŸ”₯πŸ—‘οΈπŸ”₯
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NYC water system gender reveal
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Laine Nooney @ πŸ”₯πŸ—‘οΈπŸ”₯
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Having a student with a 75K video game meme account who live tweets my class is really going to stretch the limits of my "cool professor" vibes I see
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Laine Nooney @ πŸ”₯πŸ—‘οΈπŸ”₯
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3 years
VR isn't the most democratic/accessible medium. It takes our narrowest game experience, console, & makes it *even narrower* in terms of time & space requirements. how did we watch 1.5 years of ppl's kids interrupting their zoom calls and think total digital existence was a solve?
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In less than 4 months we've gone from the metaverse being a suss, dubious concept is to students now claiming "such and such game is a metaverse" and I would like to hold the entire journalistic establishment personally responsible for this
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3 years
Love how universities are declaring in person instruction the gold standard when 10-15 years ago the grand theory was that all college was going to get replaced by MOOCs
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if you got $2.3 million, go buy the palatial house Sierra On-Line cofounders Ken and Roberta Williams lived in on the Fresno River. Check out the stained glass windows referencing Roberta's Dark Crystal, and the Apple-logo-emblazoned racquetball room
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So apparently back before the GDC vault, there was the GDC tape cassette collection.
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this is about generating investment and locking in participation from other corporations, which are going to force whatever broken ass shit this becomes on their users and employees.
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Laine Nooney @ πŸ”₯πŸ—‘οΈπŸ”₯
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so psyched the share this long read I did for @motherboard : HOW THE PERSONAL COMPUTER BROKE THE HUMAN BODY
How the Personal Computer Broke the Human Body

Decades before 'Zoom fatigue' broke our spirits, the so-called computer revolution brought with it a world of pain previously unknown to humankind.

www.vice.com
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3 years
think of all the things we do with our tvs and computers, and our co-present friends. we eat, do chores, putter around, play with our pets, make drinks. we have to stop to answer calls and use the bathroom. this shit is such a denial of human life, it's nearly enraging.
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I got an email from my university w/ notes about having a backup teaching plan in case you have internet problems. I'd like to submit for review that my backup plan is: canceling class.
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6 years
One of my students' summary statements from my political economy of games class was that "I now realize that games are an industry masquerading as an art form," so I think we can call it a day.
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Laine Nooney @ πŸ”₯πŸ—‘οΈπŸ”₯
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3 years
These people will not be satisfied until there ceases to be a shred of human creativity or expressiveness that is beyond their capture. You're staring into hell.
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Laine Nooney @ πŸ”₯πŸ—‘οΈπŸ”₯
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2 years
Here it is y'all: THE APPLE II AGE: HOW THE COMPUTER BECAME PERSONAL--now with a cover!Make sure it's in your hands in May with this 30% off code from @UChicagoPress : UCPNEW
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4 years
lol this 1983 photo of Gary Kildall working on a $10,000 Apple Lisa on this balcony
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3 years
This is the moment where I remind everyone that part of the reason Roberta Williams made her games at her kitchen table was because she also had to **watch her children.** VR technology is so disconnected from the fundamentals of domestic life and labor. Nothing but toys for boys
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3 years
That Facebook’s first ad for Horizon tried SO hard to make it seem like The Good Place is indisputable proof that it’s The Bad Place
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FINISHED
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5 years
how to write a book in 512 days. day 1...
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in conclusion Facebook should not release product demos while I'm hangry
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1 year
Right wing dying to "protect children" except when it comes to a cop's right to pin your child to the ground
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Police departments pull school officers due to Minnesota restraint law
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Laine Nooney @ πŸ”₯πŸ—‘οΈπŸ”₯
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4 years
hats off to Dolly Parton's instagram today, for serving us not just executive 9-to-5 realness but also a cameo by the IBM PS/2 Model 30
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6 years
@rachsyme Marcia Clark. Sarah Paulsen's portrayal of her in People vs. OJ was honestly therapeutic for me. Didn't realize how much toxic crap I'd adsorbed during that period of intense focus on her body, hair, fashion and demanor
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In my video game class of 50 students, only 1 had ever heard of or played Untitled Goose Game
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6 years
Behold my greatest contribution yet to the history of computing: A pdf of the 1980s ergonomics and exercise manual TONE UP AT THE TERMINALS ft. fitness guru @DeniseAustin .
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Laine Nooney @ πŸ”₯πŸ—‘οΈπŸ”₯
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DADDY'S GOT TENURE
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2 years
tragic news: MARGOT COMSTOCK, cofounder and editor of the Apple II magazine SOFTALK, passed away on Friday. Softalk was the social hub of the early Apple II software world, and Margot was its human switchboard. An under-recognized PC history legend.
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3 years
I bet it's pretty much like it was getting married in a MUD, getting married on INN, getting married in World of Warcraft, getting married in Second Life, etc etc. The only difference here is that corporate megaplatforms now take a cut and scrape your data!
@nytimes
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3 years
The bride walked down the aisle. The groom's buddy made a toast. There was dancing at the reception. And it all happened in the metaverse.
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New 2022 vibe just dropped
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4 years
i fucking dare you to find a piece of software more useless than Razer Synapse.
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Been catching up on the Game Dev labor union conversations I missed while running around GDC like a zombie. Here's a fun historical fact: employees at Sierra On-line tried to unionize in the late 80s / early 90s.
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if we make this tweet go viral i'll put it on a lecture slide
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2 years
lol Apple just denied my request to reproduce 2 historical images (one of early Woz and Jobs, one of VisiCalc on an Apple IIe) and I am so angry *for history* just unspeakably so, like the idea that billion $$ corporations are allowed to decide what history looks like is fucked.
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"hot dog stand" is the ultimate mood of the anthropocene, how do we not realize this
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"they held an all-day protest at the Orc statue" is the video game history I'm looking for
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Scoop: Blizzard employees walked out of work yesterday over the company's decision to ban a pro-Hong-Kong professional Hearthstone player. They held an all-day protest at the Orc statue in the center of the company's Irvine campus.
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Where I am, emotionally
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holy moly it's πŸŽ‰ BOOK DROP DAY πŸŽ‰ for THE APPLE II AGE: HOW THE COMPUTER BECAME PERSONAL. copies available now at all your finest book purchasing platforms! pick up a copy, leave a review, do your thing, internet!
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I feel like this got overlooked in the GDC press news, but I want to shout out what a big fucking deal it is that GDC's Pioneer and Lifetime Achievement Awards are going to women for the first time in ***either award's history*** Lifetime: Amy Hennig Pioneer: Rieko Kodama
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4 years
thinking of putting together a Friday lecture series on video game and computer history for those interested--just repurposing old 20-40 min talks I've written over the years, class lectures, etc. Thought maybe friends, fans, and bored teenagers being homeschooled might dig?
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Y'all don't even realize how much the future of game history is being propped up by, like, 3 weirdos who annually comb the floor of the GDC Expo and collect all the ephemera
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here i fixed computer history for everyone
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is there any part of writing about how floppy disks work that doesn't sound like you're just making everything up?
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"Someone had to miss their child's birthday to animate those horse balls," is definitely a thing one of my students just said during a class presentation on Red Dead 2, I'll take my teaching award now, thnx
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Herbie Hancock loves his Apple /// and Visicalc combination Softalk May 1983
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here's the deal guys, Apple's vision of computing's future: a world where you can't even slam your laptop shut or turn your phone over. an ethos of attachment where the computer hovers forever just of the margins of engagement, ever ready for you to tap in. i'm already tired.
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so the very cool thing about sending this angry apple tweet is that someone put me in touch with Woz and he is generously letting me reproduce a couple of personal images I'm pretty sure have never been published, so the moral of the story is: be Woz.
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lol Apple just denied my request to reproduce 2 historical images (one of early Woz and Jobs, one of VisiCalc on an Apple IIe) and I am so angry *for history* just unspeakably so, like the idea that billion $$ corporations are allowed to decide what history looks like is fucked.
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@janeruffino This feels very accurate!! Every time I watch Vint Cerf explain something about TCP/IP, I'm just like "what a cutie"
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like, why are we not paying tribute to this *constantly*? where are the gmail themes? why can't i instantly make this appear on my 2-foot flatscreen monitor? can i make my alienware rig light up like this?
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omg FOUND IT Sierra On-Line's (On-Line Systems at this point) ad soliciting programmers to "Boot into Yosemite" if they want to "challenged" by some "real-time programming" July 11, 1982
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5 years
Hey @PalmerLuckey : your personal ownership in of historical artifacts isnt a productive pathway to preservation. Anyone who works in museums will tell you that. If you want your money to do good, give it to an institution. If owning this makes you feel powerful, keep bidding.
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@Rubi0Sama Because I have the largest game console collection, and I am on a quest to digitize and preserve the history of physical videogames. Perfect VR will ensure the original experience lives on forever, but we need to keep these things alive and functional in the meanwhile.
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posted w/o comment: a picture of a man in a homemade airplane with an Apple II on board.
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2 years
Life come at u fast (copyedits, not typeset, but still. yowza.)
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3 years
@johnharris1969 Has either person in this video ever carried a conversation with another human
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just want to make the very chill, low key point that most of the first batch of 50 Apple 1s were put together by a pregnant woman, Job's sister Patty, while watching soap operas and The Gong Show.
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this TOC rules
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finally got a really nice scan of one of my favorite images from @museumofplay : a dog-chewed floppy disk, mailed back to Broderbund to request a replacement copy
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if i owe you an email, well, i wish you the best
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The metaverse is an investment pathway for stagnating capital, A way of reattaching value to a technology that has frankly never been that popular but is being made to seem lush again through its potential attachment to a platform in which vision itself can be monetized
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ladies, if you wanna get a bunch of guys to do research for u, just say you "think" a game is first at something then wait
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Laine Nooney @ πŸ”₯πŸ—‘οΈπŸ”₯
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4 years
Microsoft Flight Simulator is, *I think*, the longest-running commercial series in computer game history. Any takers care to dwell on this iconic series for the next issue of @ROMchip_Journal ?
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found this lil buddy inside a handbook on Dartmouth BASIC from 1968 [source here: ]
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Proud, honored, humbled: THE APPLE II AGE has been highlighted by @NewYorker πŸ˜­πŸŽ‰
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The Birth of the Personal Computer

A new history of the Apple II charts how computers became unavoidable fixtures of our daily lives.

www.newyorker.com
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Laine Nooney @ πŸ”₯πŸ—‘οΈπŸ”₯
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4 years
THIS FRIDAY: Computer History in the Age of Social Distancing presents: ON FOOTWORK Finding the β€œLocal” in Video Game History FRIDAY MAY 15 @1PM EDT
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how to write a book in 512 days. day 1...
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4 years
i cannot express in words how terrified i would be to receive medical treatment from these people
@Gothamist
Gothamist
@Gothamist
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Group Behind Central Park Coronavirus Tent Hospital Asks Volunteers To Support Anti-Gay Agenda
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5 years
::clears throat then screams:: GIVE THE MONEY TO A MUSEUM THAT ALREADY EXISTS
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The founder of purchased the Nintendo Playstation, plans to open a gaming museum
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When an interviewee said "hey i found a box of all my old Sierra press clippings, want me to send them to you?" This is not what i expected. A little stunned. Dissertations have been written on this amount of material alone.
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Laine Nooney @ πŸ”₯πŸ—‘οΈπŸ”₯
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ANNOUNCING: Computer History in the Age of Social Distancing: A Lecture Series I've compile my most accessible talks as a public-facing lecture series on video game & computing history. First talk is TOMORROW, FRIDAY 3/26 @ 1PM EST Full schedule here:
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New Elden ring boss just dropped
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4 years
The two genders
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4 years
imagine telling yourself two years ago that arizona’s senators will be a bisexual woman and an astronaut
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just LOOK at his tiny COMPUTER 😍
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6 years
Didn't know this was the cover of Software People (I have a hardcover, no sleeve). What does this image even mean???
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"Why can't we do something secretly?" You mean like when Hillary helped assassinate Bin Laden?
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In 1981, Martin Kahn, codeveloper of The Print Shop, published a coloring book of his computer art. My own copy, directly from Martin, arrived today. "It is my hope...that small computers will soon serve to unleash more of the rich and powerful imagery latent in the human mind."
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If there's one thing I aspire to communicate to everyone who loves retrogames, cares about game history, etc, is that PRESERVATION is different from HISTORY. The Uncertain Future of Video Game History | EGM
The Uncertain Future of Video Game History - EGM

Preservationists are trying to save gaming’s pastβ€”but it’s the future they need to worry about.

egmnow.com
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Laine Nooney @ πŸ”₯πŸ—‘οΈπŸ”₯
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6 years
Finally got my hands on a 1980s office supply catalog (thank you eBay), currently living my best life
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3 years
Omg I thought their UX design was just shit
@aanand
Aanand
@aanand
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Leaked documents have revealed that Google has been conspiring to hide the names of streets from anyone using Google Maps. β€œThey’ll have to zoom all the way in to see them,” an internal memo reads. Nobody has any idea why
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something something the idea of a computer making dinner was apparently the fantasy apex of home computing and still something we haven't figured out
@Foone
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So that was the Byte Magazine issue for January 1980. The theme for this one was "Domesticated Computers", showing how computers could be used around the home. Here's the sweet Robert Tinney cover illustration.
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IT'S OFFICIAL: THURS May 11 @ 6PM @internetarchive in SAN FRANCISCO, CA THE APPLE II AGE book launch ft: books signatures snacks words fun images me + finn brunton intro by @textfiles REGISTER NOW:
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Book Talk: The Apple II Age

Join author Laine Nooney for an IN-PERSON reading from their new book, followed by a conversation with historian Finn Brunton.

www.eventbrite.com
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4 years
turns out IM A REAL BOY
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The modern computerized office was literally designed to minimize physical movement that takes away from productivity. Add to that a couple hours commute sitting down on either end of a work day. These are bad faith arguments all the way down.
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Their main concern is that remote work promotes a more sedentary lifestyle, which can contribute to blood clots, cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
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3 years
Free Consulting Saturday: Your brick and mortar experience does not need a metaverse extension. Just make your website work better.
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Received about six inches of file folders today pertaining to a late 90s sierra subsidiary: white papers, design specs, financial docs, strategy proposals. all of it handed over as printouts. Why? "I thought one day a historian might show up."
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Laine Nooney @ πŸ”₯πŸ—‘οΈπŸ”₯
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2 years
Here's another way of framing this: a 30 year old @Stanford computer science grad, with a cumulative 6 months work experience in the tech industry, built a cryptocurrency business that wiped out people's life savings in a matter of days.
@silviakillings
Silvia Killingsworth
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"More than 90% of his savings vanished in a few days when TerraUSD lost its peg to the dollar."
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4 years
ABSOLUTELY forgot I order this book by inventor of the 5.25 floppy disk, Al Shugart, who also ran his dog for congress
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lmao finally figure out what this book is about!!! it's not "how the computer became personal," but how it became ubiquitous, very early, thru its alignment with conservative culture forms: capitalism, law, the family, and concerns around national exceptionalism
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Laine Nooney @ πŸ”₯πŸ—‘οΈπŸ”₯
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4 years
I'm delighted to pass along this good news: my forthcoming book THE APPLE II: HOW THE COMPUTER BECAME PERSONAL will come out from @UChicagoPress , under the wonderful guidance of @josephcalamia
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4 years
turns out IM A REAL BOY
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7 years
literally the best fact from my talk
@randyzero
Randy O’Connor
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7 years
Sierra Online's clue hotline was AT&T's most lucrative non-pornographic line sometime in the 90s. @Sierra_OffLine history talk at #progmech
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🚨🚨 DOPE JOB ALERT 🚨🚨 🎺 TT Asst Professor of Critical Digital Studies in @mccNYU 🎺 DEADLINE NOV 18 keywords: algorithmic bias, automation, datafication, digital labor, fintech, infrastructure, networks, platform capitalism, privacy/surveillance
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NYU Assistant Professor of Critical Digital Studies, Tenure-Track | NYU Steinhardt

New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Critical Digital Studies to begin in September 2023.

steinhardt.nyu.edu
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