Technology History
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#article - Wikipedia. "Aaron Hillel Swartz (November 8, 1986 – January 11, 2013) was an American , entrepreneur, writer, political organizer, and Internet . He was involved in the development of the format , the publishing format, the organization , and the website framework web.py, and was a co-founder of the site . He was given the title of co-founder by owner after the formation of Not a Bug, Inc. (a merger of Swartz's project Infogami and Reddit, a company run by and )."
#article - Wikipedia. - "Myst is a designed by the Miller brothers, and . It was developed by , published by , and initially released for the platform in 1993. In the game, players travel via a special book to the island of Myst. There, players solve puzzles, and by doing so, travel to four other worlds, known as Ages, which reveal the backstory of the game's characters."
#video - "Uncover the riveting story of how a small Japanese playing card company became the culture-transforming force known as Nintendo."
#video - "The history of JavaScript over the last 25 years. How did a simple scripting language for Netscape evolve into the world's most widely used programming language?"
- "Fancy a blast from the past? Curious about the Microsoft Windows release that introduced such familiar concepts as the Desktop, Start Menu, Taskbar and Notifications Area? Well, now thanks to the wonders of , and modern JavaScript runtimes, you can try it out in your browser."
#article - Wikipedia. "The Apple Pippin is a defunct open multimedia technology , designed by , and marketed as PiPP!N. According to Apple, Pippin was directed at the home market as "an integral part of the consumer audiovisual, stereo, and television environment.""
#video - "As Tim Cook and Apple launch the iPhone 8 and the iPhone X, the story of Steve Jobs’ original vision is told through exclusive interviews with former Apple executives Scott Forstall, Tony Fadell and Greg Christie. Together they made up the secret Project Purple team and created one of the best-selling products ever."
#article - "In the early '80s, Apple fell victim to a serious case of NIH Syndrome (Not Invented Here), and decided to manufacture their own disk drives. Not content to be industry compatible, instead they designed what they believed to be leading-edge drives: the Twiggy floppy drive and the Widget hard drive."
#article - Wikipedia. "WWDC began in 1987 in . After 15 years in nearby San Jose, the conference moved to , where it eventually became Apple's primary media event of the year and regularly sold out. WWDC returned to San Jose 13 years later."
#video - "Arguably one of most transformative pieces of technology in the modern era, the iPhone's development was fraught with engineering problems, drama, and extreme stress. Former employees share their stories from inside Apple 10 years ago."
#article - "This list of Macintosh models by case type contains all case designs used by for its computers. The list is sectioned by general case layout, but inside the sections the order is chronological. Models that used multiple names (like most ) are listed only once. Where available, the "form factor" from Apple's datasheets has been used to determine the case designation and the computers that used it. For all-in-one models and notebooks that have the same basic case design, but differ in size, just one type is listed. Also, some models that differ only slightly or internally are listed together, like the two and the ."
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#article - Wikipedia. "Rhapsody was the code name given to 's next-generation during the period of its development between Apple's purchase of in late 1996 and the announcement of (now called "macOS") in 1998."
#article - Wikipedia. "3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet is a version of the Space Cadet table bundled with . It was originally packaged with 95 and later included in , , , and . This version of Pinball, developed by at Microsoft, was a port of the game using the original art and sound, developed in C for cross-platform support because Windows NT supported RISC processors and prior versions of the game contained x86 assembly language and 16-bit logic. The installation has instructions on installing Pinball 3D on this version of Windows which are partly wrong; Microsoft later issued an updated support article. Windows XP was the last client release of Windows to include this game."
#article - Wikipedia. "Hover! is a that combines elements of the games and . It was included on CD-ROM versions of the operating system. It was a showcase for the advanced capabilities available on at the time. It is still available from Microsoft.[] The game will not run on earlier versions of Windows."
#article - Wikipedia. "SkiFree is a single-player computer game created by Chris Pirih and released with for and in October 1991. The player controls a skier on a mountain slope, avoiding obstacles while racing against time or performing stunts for points, depending on the game mode." .
