The Queer History of Early Computing

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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

It's hard to imagine life without smartphones, but it wasn't so long ago that the idea of a home computer was a novelty. When was the exact moment that the "personal computer" became truly "personal," and how did computer ownership and literacy become inexorably tied to our lives? This week, Adam is joined by author and technology historian Laine Nooney to discuss how the Apple II revolutionized our fundamental relationship with technology. Find Laine's book at factually.com/books

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