23 Jan
2011
23 Jan
'11
3:11 p.m.
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011, Dave McGuire wrote:
button? Circa 1974, huh? No, I'm clearly nuts,
computers only came
around in the 1990s, "when modems were invented so we could surf the
Internet".
The definition is quite "fluid" - it is "defined" primarily by people
who
have no expertise. The majority of people will define "computer", or at
least "first computer" based ENTIRELY on what ahd when first got their
attention. Thus, there are some media "writers" who think only in terms
of Apple][, IBM PC, Mac.
Too many people equate the history of computers with WWW.
If there had not been porn on the web, would the public have ever even
noticed computers?
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com