<full story - with pictures>The Atlabtic wrote:During a time when computing power was so scarce that it required a government-defense budget to finance it, a young man used a $238 million military computer, the largest such machine ever built, to render an image of a curvy woman on a glowing cathode ray tube screen. The year was 1956, and the creation was a landmark moment in computer graphics and cultural history that has gone unnoticed until now.
Before there was an Internet - there was Rule 34
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...and the first 'game' was the Navy's flight sim mentioned in the article, I would suppose?
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I'm pretty sure I saw on TV that the first game was an Asteroids style game with the "A" character representing the ship. It was definitely on one of those round screen government computesr, possibly those same SAGE systems.
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The earliest game i know was Spacewar.
BTW: The first use of the term "virus" as a computer term seems to have been in David Gerrold's SF novel When HARLIE Was One. "Worm" seems to have made its first appearance in John Brunner's novel Shockwave Rider.
And "cookie" - which is a shortened from of "magic cookie" - seems to have originated in the comic strip Odd Bodkins
BTW: The first use of the term "virus" as a computer term seems to have been in David Gerrold's SF novel When HARLIE Was One. "Worm" seems to have made its first appearance in John Brunner's novel Shockwave Rider.
And "cookie" - which is a shortened from of "magic cookie" - seems to have originated in the comic strip Odd Bodkins
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Correction, it is called Spacewar! (with an exclamation point ). Yes, that is the game I was thinking of, my memory was either mixing things up or whatever show I watched provided bad information.Fairportfan wrote:The earliest game i know was Spacewar.
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And I remember playing it in Arizona back in the mid-70s, at the Tuscon planetarium. Fun stuff.shadowinthelight wrote:Correction, it is called Spacewar! (with an exclamation point ). Yes, that is the game I was thinking of, my memory was either mixing things up or whatever show I watched provided bad information.Fairportfan wrote:The earliest game i know was Spacewar.
Commercially, the first arcade game was Computer Space, and played that too. Later, the place got a Pong game and the quarters went there.
FYI, Spacewar! was the arcade game played in one scene of the movie Soylent Green.
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They had to explain punch cards? Am I that old?
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Yes. We are.Jabberwonky wrote:They had to explain punch cards? Am I that old?
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Some kids can't read a clock with hands. Digital or nothing!Fairportfan wrote:Yes. We are.Jabberwonky wrote:They had to explain punch cards? Am I that old?
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How about this one 'kiddo', "What's a record?"Jabberwonky wrote:They had to explain punch cards? Am I that old?
I get that one all the time when kids come over and I play say, The Doors, or Wagner's Ring cycle. They ask me what that funny plastic thing is I am playing with. All. the. time. Records are awesome,and I love my portable turntables. My son will know how far technology has come, and what it was like back when I was very young. If they don't know, they won't learn anything and become spoiled and lack the appreciation for the finer things in life. He rather likes my old vinyl. Some of the neater things aren't on CD. BTW, if you aren't flirting with the 40's, you ain't getting old yet...just saying.
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Some people literally cannot see black-and-white images without conscious effort.Atomic wrote:Some kids can't read a clock with hands. Digital or nothing!Fairportfan wrote:Yes. We are.Jabberwonky wrote:They had to explain punch cards? Am I that old?
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Heh, I used to play our Atari 2600 on a small black and white TV. We also had a combo turntable/8 track player our room.
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I remember those days. I still kinda miss 8-Tracks, In an era before auto reversing cassette decks they made listening to music much more fun.shadowinthelight wrote:Heh, I used to play our Atari 2600 on a small black and white TV. We also had a combo turntable/8 track player our room.
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Heh, I used to do FORTRAN programming, so yea, I know all about the shoeboxes. And heaven help ya if you bumped into someone and your boxes both got dumped... that's why you always sign and number each card. It doesn't hurt the machine any, and makes it *SO* much easier to clean up such messes.
And then there were the kids who tried to use rubber bands, which bent the cards and caused them to get stuck in the machine... pfffft, n00bz.
And then there were the kids who tried to use rubber bands, which bent the cards and caused them to get stuck in the machine... pfffft, n00bz.
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And God forbid you drop the box of punch cards, and get them out of order. Even slightly.Fairportfan wrote:Yes. We are.Jabberwonky wrote:They had to explain punch cards? Am I that old?
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Or dial a phone. I mean with a rotary dial.Jabberwonky: "They had to explain punch cards? Am I that old?"
Fairportfan: "Yes. We are."
Atomic: "Some kids can't read a clock with hands. Digital or nothing!
Fairportfan: "Some people literally cannot see black-and-white images without conscious effort.
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Heh. I remember when i was at Georgia Tech in 1972 - i'd see guys coming into the Computer Center with multiple boxes of cards (what - a thousand to a box? More?) making up one COBOL program.bmonk wrote:And God forbid you drop the box of punch cards, and get them out of order. Even slightly.Fairportfan wrote:Yes. We are.Jabberwonky wrote:They had to explain punch cards? Am I that old?
And if you got one card outta place, it generated a hundred pages or so of "Fatal Error" messages and died.
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And the alternative was what? Fortran?Fairportfan wrote:Admiral Grace was a wonderful computer person ... but COBOL is a blot on her escutcheon.
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Well, they had different uses.Atomic wrote:And the alternative was what? Fortran?Fairportfan wrote:Admiral Grace was a wonderful computer person ... but COBOL is a blot on her escutcheon.
COBOL was designed mostly for business admin, banking, accounting, and such. Hence the name: COmmon Business-Oriented Language.
FORTRAN, on the other hand, was designed for more scientific applications and number crunching, being able to run complex formulas very rapidly. In fact, that's where the name came from: FORmula TRANslation.
And FORTRAN had the same problem COBOL did with the punch cards. Get even ONE out of order and the whole thing crashes. Hence why you numbered them in the corner, if you were smart. Well, you *could* have numbered them with the first six spaces, binary style, but that was considered very bad practice since it ate up computation power for no reason, and it encouraged GOTO statements.