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A (very) Concise Creative History of Computers

A (very) Concise Creative History of Computers

December 10th, 2016 - Jim Boulton

It all started in 1952, when strangely composed, anonymous love letters started appearing on the noticeboard…

Archie

Search and you will find

August 17th, 2016 - Jim Boulton

In the early days of the web, Tim Berners-Lee maintained a list of websites on the…

Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others

April 22nd, 2016 - Jim Boulton

In the early ‘70’s, following the launch of ARPANET, several packet-switching networks emerged. Robert Kahn had…

Dancing Baby

GIF not JIF

February 24th, 2016 - Jim Boulton

It’s almost thirty-years-old. It only supports 256 colours. It’s unsuitable for photographs. It has no sound…

Original Bboard Thread in which :-) was proposed by Scott Fahlman on 19 September, 1982

The Emoticon

January 21st, 2016 - Jim Boulton

The first use of the smiley face on a screen was in September 1982 at Carnegie…

Leon Harmon and Kenneth Knowlton’s reclining nude, 1966. An image of the dancer Deborah Hay was dissected into a grid and assigned an icon according to its halftone density.

Bitworld: The creative history of computers

January 1st, 2016 - Jim Boulton

Eye magazine is the quarterly review of graphic design for artists and designs professionals. In issue 88,…

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