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Foreword to thePCstory |
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A work of history? |
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1 Numbering |
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Keeping tally |
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Counting on it |
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Look ten fingers |
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Something for nothing |
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2 Calculations – and devices |
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Go figure |
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Beads and wire |
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Slip sliding away |
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A plague on your devices |
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Elusive notions |
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Falling off the tables |
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Fascinating Ada |
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Continental shifts |
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Yankee doodles |
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Trials and tabulations |
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Power plays |
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Buttons and bells |
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Target practice |
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Blue dynasty |
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3 Electronic brains – mainframe computers |
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By Zuse |
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Spirit of Babbage |
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Garage sale |
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Simple as ABC |
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Ciphers and fish |
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Colossal response |
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Britain’s wasted legacy |
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Mark time |
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Pick up something from the PX |
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On manoeuvres |
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Amazing Grace |
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Trumping in with an Ace |
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E=MC² |
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Betting on track |
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Banking on it |
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More applications |
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Who was first among equals? |
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Decoupling software |
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4 British Brains |
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Manchester Baby |
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Ferranti |
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Turing’s demise |
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Further contributions |
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Selling computers |
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Anyone for tea? Cambridge University and LEO |
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In the other boat |
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Musical chairs |
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5 Global sprawl |
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Bouncing back from WWII |
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Germany |
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Japan |
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Italy |
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Other Europeans |
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The Netherlands |
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Norway |
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France |
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Trans-European |
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Soviet computing |
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Eastern Europe |
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Computer turbo |
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6 It was rocket science – the PC catalyst |
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Convict No N1442 |
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Object PS-1 |
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Playing catch-up |
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Time-sharing |
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A development whirlwind |
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Air defence |
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Computers transistorised |
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Minicomputers |
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Olsen and the Family |
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Railing against authority – MIT’s Tech Model Railroad Club |
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Computer games |
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Gaming for money |
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Coin-op games |
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To boldly go |
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Asian invasion |
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Space men |
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7 Building blocks – advances in electronics |
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Chipping away at progress |
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Tiny bells |
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Silicon Valley |
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IC IC IC |
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Moore’s Law |
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Thanks for them |
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Intelligent choice |
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I’ll Hoff and I’ll puff |
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Project to product |
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Who started it? |
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MPUs like mushrooms |
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It’s not just about size |
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What about speed? |
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8 Kit and Caboodle – hobby computer kits |
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PC Genesis |
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Build your own computer |
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Scoping the d-i-y business |
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Open the show Hal |
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Not a recipe for success |
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Meanwhile out West |
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Adding fizz to the proceedings |
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Course followed by chips |
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Micral |
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MCM |
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Scelbi |
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Other kits |
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British kits |
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Second-rate star goes nova – the Altair |
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9 Large pebble in the pond – the PC movement |
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Serving the community |
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People power |
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Getting it together – Homebrew Computer Club |
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Worshipping at the Altair |
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Establishing fundamentals – BASIC |
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Software opportunity comes knocking |
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Early Gates – developing skills |
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Traf-O-Data – working with emulation |
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BASIC for Altair |
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Altair sold on |
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Software without charge |
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They also served – Altair boys |
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Box shifters – Byte Shop |
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Filling the gap – Processor Technology |
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Peddling kits – KIM and TIM |
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IMSAI and Computerland |
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Kits by catalogue – SwTPc |
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Homebrewing the SOL |
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Getting it taped – Kansas City and CUTS |
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Disk jockeying – Shugart and Ernest |
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10 Good thinking – the PC prophets |
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You may think that – Bush and Memex |
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Hyperbeat – Nelson’s philosophy |
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Ride that wave – LINC and HP |
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Mother of all demos – Augmentation Research Center |
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Joined-up thinking – repositories of knowledge |
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Improving the man-computer relationship – Licklider |
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MIT points the way – Kleinrock and Roberts |
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Leaving the ARC – Californian motivation |
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11 PARC and ride – Xerox designs the PC |
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Office of the Future |
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Gaggle of gurus – Bob Taylor |
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Small thinking – Alan Kay |
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To the max – Lampson and Thacker |
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Collaborators – English and Duvall |
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Singing Alto – the first personal computer? |
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Bravo! – Simonyi |
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Gypsy Mott – Mott and Tesler |
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Out of the ether – Metcalfe and Ethernet |
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PARC a failure? |
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Dry copies – Chester Carlson and Xerography |
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Optical allusions – Starkweather and laser printing |
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A postscript coming first – John Warnock |
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WIMPs – opening the windows |
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Taking note – Kay and NoteTaker |
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D* – let’s talk of dolphins and dandelions |
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Birth of a star – Xerox Star 8010 |
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Geometrical progression |
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Unprotected – why no Xerox patents |
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12 Wait for ages, then three come along |
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No longer just a hobby |
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Coming to fruition – Apple |
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Early Wozniak |
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Cream Soda computer |
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Phreaking out |
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Working for others |
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Meeting the micro |
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Own designs – Apple I |
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Selling fruit – Jobs and Wayne |
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Taking a byte – Paul Terrell and a PO |
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The end of the beginning – divest? |
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Ripening – Mike Markkula |
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Keeping up appearances – Apple II |
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Adding colour – Apple II |
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Going to market – Apple III and IPO |
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The beat goes on – Apple Corps |
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Military titles – Commodore |
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Earning stripes – typewriters to calculators |
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Acquiring a mascot – the PET |
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A second victory – VIC-20 |
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Further promotion – Commodore 64 |
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Retailing computers – Tandy |
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L for leather |
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Trash sells – TRS-80 |
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Getting basic – TinyBASIC and Microsoft |
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Government interference – FCC regulations |
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Jet setting – PET Jet, berms and Flight 191 |
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Slow penetration |
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Comparisons are studious |
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13 Games people play |
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Strategy games |
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Three houses and triple scores |
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Belligerent games – early computer war gaming |
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Screen games |
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Early shots – bouncing ball, OXO and Tennis for Two |
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Forefathers or two? Baer and Bushnell |
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Rising sun developments |
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House of cards – Nintendo |
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Take a picture – Sega |
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Coining it in |
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Coming home |
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Bouncing along – Pong |
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Plug and play – Atari VCS |
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Beyond our Ken – Intellivision |
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Hee-haw – Donkey Kong |
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Post console crash |
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For all the family – Nintendo NES |
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Megabucks – Sega Master System |
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Counter blow – Nintendo SNES |
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New horse in the race – PC Engine and TurboGrafx |
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Serious new player – Sony comes to play |
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Also rans – Neo Geo |
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Handing out more fun – handheld consoles |
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14 Content – software for games consoles |
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Lock and load – CD- and DVD-ROMs |
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Enthusiasts |
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Digging deep – Colossal Cave |
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Soaring high – Flight Simulator |
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All the As and an I? – games software houses |
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Caring and sharing – games shareware |
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New game |
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The high sierras – Sierra Online |
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You can be Sirius – Sirius Software |
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Oh brother – Brøderbund |
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UK can play too – Bug-Byte, Mindscape, Psion… |
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It’s in the game – Electronic Arts |
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Outstanding play – Frogger, Pac-Man, Tetris… |
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15 The second wave – as PCs abound |
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Check-mate |
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Candy and Colleen – Atari 400 and 800 |
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Bullish approach – Hi-Toro to Amiga |
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Comings and goings – Atari v Commodore v Amiga |
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In search of excellence – Atari XE and ST |
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TI – a case study of its time |
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The corgi that roared – Mettoy Dragon |
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Approaching the spectrum |
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Columns to calculators – Sinclair the early days |
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A British apple – NEB funding for a UK PC |
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Through a Prism – Sinclair distribution |
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Going global – Sinclair spreads its wings |
| S242 |
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Silicon Fen |
| S243 |
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Great oaks – Acorn Computers |
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Splitting the proton – the BBC Micro |
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Electron storm – Acorn Electron |
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Urbane spread – Oric, Lynx, Research Machines, Apricot… |
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One giant leap – Sinclair QL |
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Portability – Psion |
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Sugar craft – Amstrad |
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Japanese computing comes of age |
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A light in the east – Toshiba |
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Elevating the argument – Hitachi |
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Japanese computing (2) |
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Building mountains – Fujitsu |
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Transistor radios to world domination – Sony |
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Japanese computing (3) |
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Self-propelled – Sharp |
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Coming down the line – NEC |
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Japanese computing (4) |
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Timing it right – Seiko/Epson |
| S258 |
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Other Japanese players – Canon, Matsushita, Mitsubishi, Oki… |
| S259 |
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Asian competition (s259) |
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Taiwan – Acer, ASUS, Quanta… |
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Korea – Daewoo, Goldstar, Samsung |
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China – Great Wall, Founder, Lenovo |
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[India - to be added] |
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Russian revolutions – MIPT, LEMZ, Elektronica, Pentagon, Kraftway |
| S264 |
16 Getting serious – the PC comes of age |
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The seventy stone gorilla is roused – IBM |
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IBM Entry Level Systems |
| S267 |
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Software sourcing for the IBM PC |
| S268 |
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BASIC and Microsoft |
| S269 |
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Operating systems |
| S270 |
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Raising standards |
| S271 |
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Intergalactic thinking |
| S272 |
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With BIOS |
| S273 |
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Selection process for the IBM PC |
| S274 |
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Launch of the IBM PC |
| S275 |
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Send in the clones |
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Copyrighting a ROM? – Franklin |
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Applying BIOS – Columbia, Eagle |
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Reverse engineering – Compaq, Phoenix, Zenith |
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Action and reaction |
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Extending the PC – PC-XT |
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A PC for peanuts – PCjr |
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Another try – PC AT |
| S283 |
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It was all getting personal – PS/2 |
| S284 |
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Apple response |
| S285 |
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Apple III problems |
| S286 |
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Apple visits PARC – Apple Lisa |
| S287 |
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Trouble in the orchard |
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Jef Raskin defines and names the Macintosh |
| S289 |
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Jobs takes the helm – redefining the Macintosh |
| S290 |
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Strength in depth – the Macintosh team |
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A new dimension in software – Mac software |
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Jobs’ discomforter |
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Stretching the fabric |
| S294 |
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Geometry and 3D – Silicon Graphics |
| S295 |
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3M computing – Sun Microsystems |
| S296 |
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More 3M – the NeXT big thing |
| S297 |
17 Clever GUIs – PCs get user friendly |
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Software driven – Microsoft evolves |
| S299 |
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Remorseless growth – DOS |
| S300 |
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Symbiotic relationships – Microsoft and GUI |
| S301 |
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At the human interface – Interface Manager |
| S302 |
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Sand in your eyes – Microsoft and the Mac |
| S303 |
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Jockeying for position – GUIs, Microsoft and Apple |
| S304 |
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Steamy windows – Microsoft Windows at last |
| S305 |
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Fresh openings – UNIX to Linux |
| S306 |
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Copyleft and GNU |
| S307 |
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Tux the penguin – Linux |
| S308 |
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Putting a hat on it – Red Hat |
| S309 |
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Is it catching? Viruses and malware |
| S310 |
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Replication – John von Neumann and Creeper |
| S311 |
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Fact following fiction – Wabbit, Pervade, Stoned… |
| S312 |
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Vermicelli – worms |
| S313 |
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Immunisation programs |
| S314 |
18 Number crunching – spreadsheets and database |
| S315 |
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Forecasts and what-ifs – spreadsheets |
| S316 |
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Cross-casting to VisiCalc |
| S317 |
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Securing software – what no patent? |
| S318 |
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Keep it in context – Context MBA |
| S319 |
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You’ve been framed – Framework |
| S320 |
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Lotus blossom – Lotus 1-2-3 |
| S321 |
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Super-calci-fragilistic – SuperCalc |
| S322 |
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Getting it all under control – databasing |
| S323 |
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Navigating data – navigational databases |
| S324 |
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Bachman overdrive – IDS |
| S325 |
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Who was the culprit? – Cullinane |
| S326 |
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Close relations – relational databases |
| S327 |
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Codd Father- IMS, System R, SQL |
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Moving the base- Ingres |
| S329 |
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New dimensions- OLAP |
| S330 |
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Expressing oneself – IRI and Express |
| S331 |
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Missing link – Essbase |
| S332 |
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Financial databasing – IMRS to Hyperion |
| S333 |
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Consulting the oracle – Ellison and Oracle |
| S334 |
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Developing SQL – Sybase |
| S335 |
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Running the marathon – ISAM to Informix |
| S336 |
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Vikings and foxes – PC databasing |
| S337 |
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Ratliff’s Vulcan – the evolution of dBase |
| S338 |
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Reynard enters the coop – FoxBase |
| S339 |
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Omega to Access |
| S340 |
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That’s it in a nutshell – the path to FileMaker |
| S341 |
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Bean counting – accounting by computer |
| S342 |
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Business accounting |
| S343 |
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Just peachy – Peachtree Software |
| S344 |
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It takes wisdom – Sage |
| S345 |
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Plains speaking- Great Plains Software to Microsoft |
| S346 |
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The platinum approach- Epicor |
| S347 |
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Counting non-profits – Blackbaud |
| S348 |
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Clouded thinking – SaaS |
| S349 |
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Home budgeting |
| S350 |
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Chip off the old block – Meca |
| S351 |
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Makes your heartbeat faster – Quicken |
| S352 |
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I’m a gnu- open-source accounting |
| S353 |
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Money, money, money – Microsoft |
| S354 |
19 Publish and be damned – word-processing/DTP |
| S355 |
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Typewriting |
| S356 |
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Mightier than the sword – Remington |
| S357 |
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IBM typewriters |
| S358 |
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The term WP |
| S359 |
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WP machines |
| S360 |
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Word Processing Software |
| S361 |
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Electric Pencil to WordStar |
| S362 |
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WordPerfect to Borland |
| S363 |
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Graphics |
| S364 |
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Going in to print – TeX |
| S365 |
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Founding Adobe and developing Postscript |
| S366 |
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15th century printer to PageMaker – Aldus |
| S367 |
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Juggling the catalyst for Quark |
| S368 |
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Adobe’s rapid progress |
| S369 |
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Vector graphics – Adobe Illustrator |
| S370 |
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Make it snappy – Photoshop |
| S371 |
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Who says they’re not out to get me? Geschke’s kidnap |
| S372 |
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Moving it around – Acrobat and PDF |
| S373 |
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Laying it out – Adobe InDesign |
| S374 |
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Integrated approach – Adobe Creative Suite |
| S375 |
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Corel |
| S376 |
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Macromedia |
| S377 |
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Shockwave |
| S378 |
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Flash |
| S379 |
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Dreamweaver |
| S380 |
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Fireworks |
| S381 |
20 Read all about it – the PC and books |
| S382 |
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Early digitisation |
| S383 |
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OCLC and WorldCat |
| S384 |
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Project Gutenburg |
| S385 |
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Floppy books |
| S386 |
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Books on CD-ROM |
| S387 |
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First digital book? |
| S388 |
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BiblioBytes |
| S389 |
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Downloading books |
| S390 |
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eBooks and ISBN |
| S391 |
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ePub |
| S392 |
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Early eReaders |
| S393 |
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SoftBook |
| S394 |
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Rocket eBook |
| S395 |
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Cytale |
| S396 |
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Online eReading |
| S397 |
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Précis – Amazon Search Inside and Google Print |
| S398 |
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Full text – Google Library Project |
| S399 |
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Open content alliance and MSN Book Search |
| S400 |
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Pulp fiction – backlash against Google plans |
| S401 |
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Bookselling – Google Editions |
| S402 |
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Digital rights – Adobe and Microsoft |
| S403 |
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Second generation eReaders |
| S404 |
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e-Ink |
| S405 |
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iRex iLiad |
| S406 |
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Jinke Hanlin eReaders |
| S407 |
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Sony Readers |
| S408 |
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Bookeen |
| S409 |
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Amazon Kindle |
| S410 |
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jetBook |
| S411 |
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Barnes & Noble Nook |
| S412 |
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Kobo reader |
| S413 |
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Apple iPad |
| S414 |
21 Fun and games – the second console wars |
| S415 |
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Five-a-side – 5th generation consoles |
| S416 |
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Six of one – 6th generation consoles |
| S417 |
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Lucky seven – 7th generation consoles |
| S418 |
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Best scores – top-selling console software |
| S419 |
22 Slavery without shame – Robotics and AI |
| S420 |
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The Ministry of Truth and Androbot |
| S421 |
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Robots in history |
| S422 |
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Industrial robots |
| S423 |
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Tortoises and Turtles |
| S424 |
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Fictional robots |
| S425 |
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Defining robots |
| S426 |
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Personal Robots |
| S427 |
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Artificial Intelligence and robots |
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[Virtual reality - to be added] |
| S428 |
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Robotic pets and toys |
| S429 |
23 Getting in touch – communicating by computer |
| S430 |
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Linking television and computers |
| S431 |
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Teletext |
| S432 |
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Viewdata |
| S433 |
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Micronet 800 |
| S434 |
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Minitel |
| S435 |
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Mupid |
| S436 |
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Getting connected – modems |
| S437 |
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Early connections |
| S438 |
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US Robotics |
| S439 |
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Hayes Communications |
| S440 |
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Prism Modems |
| S441 |
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Trailblazing with Telebit |
| S442 |
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Towards the ARPANET |
| S443 |
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Making networks manageable |
| S444 |
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Which model – telephone or telegraph? |
| S445 |
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Defining an approach – Baran at RAND |
| S446 |
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NPL comes up with the name – packet switching |
| S447 |
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Build it and they will come – bidding for the ARPANET work |
| S448 |
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Support and communication – RFCs |
| S449 |
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IMP-ish behaviour |
| S450 |
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ARPANET going international |
| S451 |
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The French approach – Cyclades |
| S452 |
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Networking software |
| S453 |
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Vint Cerf and TCP/IP |
| S454 |
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Working with the network – FTP, Telnet, Mbone |
| S455 |
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A spammer in the works – eMail and spam |
| S456 |
24 Keeping connected – PC networking |
| S457 |
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PC Interconnections |
| S458 |
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Not sold a pup – Xerox PARC networking |
| S459 |
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Squeezing messages down the phone line – ISDN |
| S460 |
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Hawaiian approach – ALOHAnet |
| S461 |
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Ethernet and 3Com |
| S462 |
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Thinking different – AppleTalk to Airport |
| S463 |
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Network operating system – Novell |
| S464 |
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Routers – Cisco |
| S465 |
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Telebit Router |
| S466 |
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Network Forums |
| S467 |
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Usenet |
| S468 |
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Bulletin boards |
| S469 |
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CBBS |
| S470 |
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WELL |
| S471 |
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PEN |
| S472 |
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Fido |
| S473 |
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Eunet |
| S474 |
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Secret connections |
| S475 |
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No military purpose |
| S476 |
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BITNet |
| S477 |
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Janet |
| S478 |
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Disbursement |
| S479 |
25 Dub dub dub – the World Wide Web |
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Early search engines |
| S481 |
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CWIS and Gopher |
| S482 |
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CERN |
| S483 |
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Index |
| S484 |
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Enquire |
| S485 |
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World Wide Web |
| S486 |
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The web spreads |
| S487 |
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Early Information providers |
| S488 |
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CompuServe |
| S489 |
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GEnie |
| S490 |
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Prodigy |
| S491 |
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Browsers |
| S492 |
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Berners-Lee browser |
| S493 |
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First out of the starting blocks – Erwise |
| S494 |
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Music to our eyes – Viola, Cello and Opera |
| S495 |
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The next medley – Mosaic, Spyglass, Microsoft and Netscape |
| S496 |
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Colonisation – Navigators and Explorers |
| S497 |
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Once you have a colony – go on Safari |
| S498 |
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The return of Mozilla |
| S499 |
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Shiny new approach – Google Chrome |
| S500 |
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Web services |
| S501 |
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The Source via Gameline to AOL |
| S502 |
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Architext to Excite |
| S503 |
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Filo and Yang’s Yahoo! |
| S504 |
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DEC’s AltaVista |
| S505 |
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Microsoft marches on |
| S506 |
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MSN |
| S507 |
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Hotmail |
| S508 |
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Messenger |
| S509 |
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Jeeves and Ask.com |
| S510 |
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Creating Google |
| S511 |
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Attracting income – advertising on Google |
| S512 |
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Lift off – Google attracts investment |
| S513 |
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Foundation – Google’s early commitment to philanthropy |
| S514 |
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Culture of non-compliance with the norms |
| S515 |
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Google growing up – attracting professional management |
| S516 |
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Constant innovation |
| S517 |
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Google and AOL |
| S518 |
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Google Compute |
| S519 |
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Gmail |
| S520 |
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Picasa |
| S521 |
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Google v Overture |
| S522 |
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Earthly progress |
| S523 |
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Mapping the world – and beyond |
| S524 |
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Google communication |
| S525 |
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Google social networking |
| S526 |
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Google in 2011 |
| S527 |
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Even more Web services |
| S528 |
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Baidu |
| S529 |
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Freenet |
| S530 |
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Amazon |
| S531 |
|
Napster |
| S532 |
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eBay |
| S533 |
|
Pierre Omidyar |
| S534 |
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Auction Web |
| S535 |
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Early eBay progress |
| S536 |
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eBay in use |
| S537 |
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eBay management team |
| S538 |
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eBay Motors |
| S539 |
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Remarkable eBay transactions |
| S540 |
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eBay Traders |
| S541 |
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PayPal |
| S542 |
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Giving Works |
| S543 |
|
eBay pushing the fabric |
| S544 |
|
Half.com |
| S545 |
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Craigslist |
| S546 |
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Adding categories |
| S547 |
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Drop shipping |
| S548 |
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Skype |
| S549 |
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Ranking sellers |
| S550 |
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Seeking answers – Wikipedia |
| S551 |
26 It’s a date – social networking |
| S552 |
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Six Degrees of separation |
| S553 |
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Keeping in touch with old friends |
| S554 |
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Video file sharing – YouTube |
| S555 |
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Business Networking – LinkedIn |
| S556 |
|
Hispanic social networking – Hi5 |
| S557 |
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MySpace |
| S558 |
|
Facebook |
| S559 |
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Survival of the fittest – Facemash |
| S560 |
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Rowing and rows – Harvard Connection |
| S561 |
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Launching thefacebook |
| S562 |
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Rolling out to other colleges |
| S563 |
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Further conflict – ConnectU |
| S564 |
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The influence of Sean Parker |
| S565 |
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Progress through new services |
| S566 |
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Birthdays to Bebo |
| S567 |
|
Russian socialising – Badoo |
| S568 |
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Despatches to Twitter |
| S569 |
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Courier services – Jack Dorsey |
| S570 |
|
Evan Williams and Blogger.com |
| S571 |
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All of a Twitter |
| S572 |
|
Operational matters |
| S573 |
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Spin off and take off |
| S574 |
|
750 tweets a second |
| S575 |
27 On the move – progress and mobile computing |
| S576 |
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Major shifts in the PC market |
| S577 |
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A PC exit for IBM |
| S578 |
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PCs sold on-line – Dell and Gateway |
| S579 |
|
Into the new millennium with Apple |
| S580 |
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Jonathan Ive and iMac |
| S581 |
|
Steve Jobs’ four-cell plan |
| S582 |
|
The next objective – the Digital Hub |
| S583 |
|
Revolutionising music – the iPod |
| S584 |
|
Acquisitive Microsoft |
| S585 |
|
Acquiring strength – HP |
| S586 |
|
PC mobility |
| S587 |
|
Luggables and laptops |
| S588 |
|
Organising with Psion |
| S589 |
|
Wireless connectivity |
| S590 |
|
Personal digital assistance |
| S591 |
|
Phones get smarter |
| S592 |
|
Keep taking the tablets |
| S593 |
|
Apple iPad |
| S601 |
|
The Cloud |
| S594 |
28 Analysis – what has the PC done for us? |
| S595 |
|
What happened to the paperless society? |
| S596 |
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Email challenges |
| S597 |
|
Perfect market? |
| S598 |
|
Productivity |
| S599 |
|
Maintaining your identity |
| S600 |
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Artificial intelligence |
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