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How Computers Took Over Our Lives with Laine Nooney

Factually! with Adam Conover

CHAPTER

The Queer History of Early Computing

The 80s were a period of incredible flowering in games where people were discovering new ways that you could play with a computer. Everyone found a reason to own a little bit of game software and every publisher even even VisiCalk even their publisher originally also released games like everybody also released games because they were not used they were consumed. There was this ravenous kind of appetite in the market to to for whatever you could find nextYeah you always need a new one yeah you always write as soon as because either you get bored or a lot of what is happening is that every single person programming game software is trying to figure out how to outdo the person who just released something else right so it

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