Information Final General

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War Games

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Movie about someone hacking government and starting apocalypse

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John Barlow

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Author of "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace"

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DEC PDP 11

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Large, internet ready computer

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ATEX system

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Early university computer, required full staff

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Dynabook

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theoretical childrens laptop

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GRiD Compass 1100

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Actual laptop brought into space for ****

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Compuserve Information Manager

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Bulletin board system, completely through text, could play games in text

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Prodigy

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Accessible chatrooms with built in GUIs

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AOL Walled Garden

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Nice gated community

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Gopher

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Search program using UNIX programming, created the term "surf the internet"

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Hypertext

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First used in IBM system 360

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Lynx

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Web browser for computers that cant display text

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Yahoo!

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Originally a list of all websites

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Reality Bites

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Movie about college students who arent connected

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Bush Memex/World Brain

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Orwells idea of world library with rolls of photographic film

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On the Beach

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1959 movie about the Cold War

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Fail Safe

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Threat of nuclear weapons leads to the bombing of Moscow

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Dr. Strangelove

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A second accidental attack on the soviets due to miscommunication

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Paul Baran

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Theorized distributed communications

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Donald Davies

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Created NPL Mark 1 and "packet switching"

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Autovon (Automatic Voice Network)

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Prioritized emergency system of government communication. Can survive a nuclear attack

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DARPA/ARPA

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Advanced Reasearce Project Agency

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Stewart Brand

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The WHole Earth Catalogue
Soft technologies

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VisiCalc

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Made by MISSED NAMES, and thought to be the killer app of Apple II

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IBM51000

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Small computer for about 90k today, the prototype for the Apple II ripoff

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TRS-80 Model 801

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Basic Radioshack computer used in businessess and schools

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Commodore 64

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Best selling Toron computer, over 22 million sold

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HP 85

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Self contained computer with all attachments, better than AppleII, just too explensive

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IBM 5120

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Would be $25k today

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Osbourne I

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First theoretically portable laptop

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Gary Kindall

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Created the CPM operating system ripped off by Bill Gates and sold to IBM

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IBM Personal Computer

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All the benefits of Apple plus corporate safety, was made unique by the Pheonix Bios chip

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Xerox Park

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Palo Alto research center trying to reclaim copying

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Xerox Invention

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Mouse, GUI, laser printer

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Xerox Alto

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Pretty much a standard computer with standard parts, but only ever made test units

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Xerox Star

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Attempt to market the Xerox Alto, Steve Jobs attempted to but the technology

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Apple Lisa

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Endorsed by Kevin Cosner, but too slow and expensive to ever make an impression

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Douglas Englebart

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Developed Mouse and GUI

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Pirates of SIlicon Valley

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Portrays computer designers as countercultural hippies

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Steve Dompier

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Homebrew computer club

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Alan Cooper

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Lead for Microsoft Visual Basic

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Jim Warren

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Created computer conferences for nerds

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Intel

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Saw the market for microprocessors in business

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Moores Law

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Transistor technology will double every 2 years

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Tedd Hoff

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Head of Intel, wanted cheap easy computers

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Intel 8080

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1974 computer fit on a single strip

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MITS

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created Altair 880 "worlds first microcomputer kit"

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Altair 880

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Came in pieces and had no use but "expansion slots"

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Mike markkula

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Apple co-founder who threw down 250k of startup money

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Home Computers in 1975

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Other-TRS-Atari-Apple-IBM

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Home Computers 1975-2005

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IBM PC+ Clones take almost all market share

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Simon COmputer

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Small computer that did basic operations without needing vacuum tubes

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Edmund berkely 129 relays

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Simple math calculator for 500 bucks

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Geniac

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cheap computer that one could build from a kit

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Heathkit EC-1

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Analogue computer

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Minivac 601

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Made by Claude Shannon

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Honeywell Model 316 Kitchen Computer

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0 were sold

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Kenbak-1

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First Von Neumann computer, sold 40

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Hewlett Packer 9380 A

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Pretty damn good computer

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Mark 1

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First Microprocessor ever used

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Minitel

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The french system of internet and telephone

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EDSAC

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Hooked cathode ray tubes up to a TV

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OXo

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Invented by Alexander Douglas to play tic tac toe

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Missilve SYstem

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Not a game, but shot down missles

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Tennis for Two

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Computer that let people play pong

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Spacewar

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Game made by MIT hackers

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Nolan BUshness

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Converted Spacewars to an arcade cabnet, invented computer space and Pong, Invented Atari

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Atari video computer system

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Space invaders, asteroids, pacman

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Atari 1987

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10,000,000 sold, ubiquitously releasing the ET game upon all humanity

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COBOL

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Common business oriented Language, first assembly level code

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IBM system 360

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Beginning of reducing vacuun tubes to smaller models, came in models 30, 40, and 90

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Grosch's law

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Square relationships between cost and speed

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Time-sharing

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Allowed multiple people to use the same computer, though speeds would vary

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BASIC

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Used in Apple II software

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Integrated circuits

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Cheap and powerful, allowed for much less effort to be put into assembly

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ENIAC

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Built by Mauchley and Echert, a bulb would blow every 10 minutes

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Switching circuit

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Supped up verson of lightbulb with amplifiers made of anode grid, cathodes, and votain envelope

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John Von Neumann

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Said that input, output, and computing should all take place in a centralized location

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Von Neumann architecy

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Input enters memory then outputs control, arithmetic, and output

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Binac

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Originally made to have marketplace value, and eventuall sold to Remmington Rand for horse racing

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Univac

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Invented to replace Binac

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Eckert and Cronkite

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Predicted the Eisenhower landslide victory, but could not believe it

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Thomas J Watson

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Chairman of IBM

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IBM 701

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Similar to UNIVAC, sold to air defenses

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IBM 650

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Cheaper than the 701 by 25%

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Sage System

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underground network that used radar to detect planes and display information to a screen. Soon went obselete when russians discovered missles. Eventually sold to airlines

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Banwell/Honeywell Model 800

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Lambs of slaughter to the great IBM computers

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Lyons Leo

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UK company that designs a cheap personal computer

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First Transistor

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Invented in Bell Laboratories, made from cheap silicon and Germanium

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Silicon Valley

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Palo Alto CA, turned rural into tech central

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Frederick Terman

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Lent Hewlett Packer 1.5k to start company

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Hewlett-Packer

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Tied supply to local chains and local suppliers

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William Shockley

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Won the nobel prize, but was a ****** manager

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Treacherous 8

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Left Shockley for Fairchild Electronics, then all eventually went their own ways