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I've seen only no 9 (no draft window) thanks to my grandfather's Fiat. I doubt most of the others were even seen in India.

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My first PC was a 286 with 1 MB RAM, a 40 MB HD, 5 1/4" floppy drive, CGA monitor, no mouse, no sound, no CD-ROM.
Also used a dB Spectrum before that - it used a cassette recorder for storage, had 64K memory, and used a TV as display.

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Quite a comprehensive article. Google did do some things right and before Apple, after all.

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The article also includes images from Susan's sketchbook where she designed many of the "iconic" icons

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"The first picture of a person. The image shows a busy street, but because exposure time was over ten minutes, the traffic was moving too much to appear. The exception is the man at the bottom left, who stood still getting his boots polished long enough to show. Note that the image is a mirror image."

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Makes for pretty sad reading, and the situation with Android updates outside of the US is even worse. I share the exact sentiments with my Galaxy S i9003 that's still stuck on Froyo 2.2

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Way back from 1884, and steam powered at that.

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Key points:
- You could actually use a TV as the monitor
- The function of the scroll lock key was a mystery even then
- BASIC (stored in the ROM) came before DOS
- Esc, Alt + Del was the reboot combo
And from the review in a nutshell:
"This is probably the most professionally put-together system I have seen. The only thing missing at the moment is a wide selection of packages, but I rather feel that the whole world and its grandmother will be frantically trying to fill that particular gap."

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Quite a lot of information on how quotes get mangled over time & get popular thus immortalizing the person who made the quote. Then again, sometimes quotes are misattributed. It also mentions a couple of books that help verify the authenticity of quotes & traces their origins.

"Public circulation is what renders something a quotation. It’s quotable because it’s been quoted, and its having been quoted gives it authority. Quotations are prostheses. “As Emerson/Churchill/Donald Trump once observed” borrows another person’s brain waves and puts them to your own use. (If you fail to credit Emerson et al., it’s called plagiarism. But isn’t plagiarism just the purest form of quotation?) Then, there is a subset of quotations that are personal. We pick them up off the public street, but we put them to private uses. We hoard quotations like amulets. They are charms against chaos, secret mantras for dark times, strings that vibrate forever in defiance of the laws of time and space. That they may be opaque or banal to everyone else is what makes them precious: they aren’t supposed to work for everybody. They’re there to work for us. Some are little generational badges of identity. Some just seem to pop up on a million occasions. Some are razors."

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Quite a list for sure, and one that is bound to expand. Think of it as a historical snopes.com. Found it all thanks to xkcd - http://xkcd.com/843/

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Probably jumping the gun & a bit too radical, but an interesting read on the changing times nonetheless. Moreover, a lot of content like video & even P2P does get served through the web.

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Download the original version of VisiCalc for the PC, provided by the inventor himself. The site also includes reference cards and lots of other resources, links & articles

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Resulting in disasters like rockets blowing up & fatal radiation doses

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Interesting take on Yahoo, and where technology startups should focus on. Also, big money distracts.

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A firsthand account of the blackbird in service

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The codes are there on the site too. Decipher them & get hold of the treasure. As simple as that.

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'Thanks to the popular 1988 movie Stand and Deliver, many Americans know of the success that Jaime Escalante and his students enjoyed at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles. During the 1980s, that exceptional teacher at a poor public school built a c

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The original speech

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Quite a videos

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Interesting way to represent stuff. Not sure how long this link will work though - looks like a temporary one.

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