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Thread ID: 79360	2007-05-17 05:59:00	Where It All Began...er, Right After Mssr. Jacquard.	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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550598	2007-05-17 05:59:00	Video games . . . not computer games, were the first incarnation of things CRT that used human interface to play some very simple games like Tic-Tac-Toe or PONG . Take a little trip back to yesteryear and see what and where it all began: http://www . pong-story . com/ Extra point question . . . . Who was Mssr . Jacquard and what did he have to do with computers? [:groan:] - No fair looking in Wikipedia! - [:groan:]	SurferJoe46 (51)
550599	2007-05-17 06:43:00	[i]Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to decieve . Jacquard used punched holes in rolls of cardboard to control automatic looms . I suspect there were other automatic machines , including musical instruments, around using the same method . I suppose you could, as many have, say that this is what computer punched cards are based on . But it's a bit of a stretch, especially since Jacquard didn't have Lycra . And looms didn't have built in computers in those days . Donald Knuth wrote two computer languages: "Tangle", and "Weave" which he used to develop the Tex typesetting system .	Graham L (2)
550600	2007-05-17 17:15:00	Not trying to force or use the broadest application, we can see: . . . . . . . . . . . . . that anything that can recall a set pattern or line of data or operation is a computer . The word "computer" is old-world Yiddish®, alleging it's ancient heraldry and by extrapolation, it's use in much earlier civilizations: "Com" = with or about, esp like COMPOSURE, ie; "Stella showed great composure when she accidentally got brissed!" "Puter" = device for holding archives or family heirlooms, ie; "Moishe's remains are in the puter vase on the mantel" . If one were to just take the lineage of words to their root beginnings, then a lot of confusion would be removed . Case closed .	SurferJoe46 (51)
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