Generation snowflake

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pier_Giorgio_Perotto
http://www.computerhope.com/people/leonard_kleinrock.htm
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001016.htm

Not a boomer in sight.

 

English please

 

No you do. That's the problem. You think that your virtue actually matters. You only argument you can make is cry cry cry Windigo is a meany. I don't care. I could care less about you. That is what it means to be Gen-X our motto is (*)(*)(*)(*) You. We don't (*)(*)(*)(*)ing care what you think.

And as I said it just sat there. And it's arguable if it's even am invention. It's just a way to use the invention. It's a concept more than an actual thing.

Can you not read? Apple did not invent the PC. Xerox did. Apple had to license Xerox patents.

 

History says you're wrong. You even quoted it and apparently couldn't read what you quoted

Clinton signed the "biggest tax increase in history" according to people like you and 20 million jobs were created on his watch

Bush cut taxes...and a paltry 1 million jobs were created...all of them government jobs by the way

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The World Wide Web was invented by English scientist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989. He wrote the first web browser in 1990 while employed at CERN in Switzerland. It has become known simply as the Web

 

OK, so since increased spending doesn't create demand and new jobs, therefore your original premise is disproven.

You can't have it both ways.

 

The challenge was who invented the internet and pc. Neither were invented by a boomer.

 

In 1975, MITS hired a pair of Harvard students named Paul G. Allen and Bill Gates to adapt the BASIC programming language for the Altair. The software made the computer easier to use, and it was a hit. In April 1975 the two young programmers took the money they made from “Altair BASIC” and formed a company of their own—Microsoft—that soon became an empire.

The year after Gates and Allen started Microsoft, two engineers in the Homebrew Computer Club in Silicon Valley named Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak built a homemade computer that would likewise change the world. This computer, called the Apple I, was more sophisticated than the Altair: It had more memory, a cheaper microprocessor and a monitor with a screen. In April 1977, Jobs and Wozniak introduced the Apple II, which had a keyboard and a color screen. Also, users could store their data on an external cassette tape. (Apple soon swapped those tapes for floppy disks.) To make the Apple II as useful as possible, the company encouraged programmers to create “applications” for it. For example, a spreadsheet program called VisiCalc made the Apple a practical tool for all kinds of people (and businesses)–not just hobbyists.


The PC Revolution


The PC revolution had begun. Soon companies like Xerox, Tandy, Commodore and IBM had entered the market, and computers became ubiquitous in offices and eventually homes

 

If you mean who invented a box with some flashing lights that did almost nothing...yea...it was a couple years prior to Gates/Jobs?Wozniak.

But then we can track that back to the invention of the transistor...and eventually all the way back to Edison and Tesla...but that would be stupid wouldn't it.

The internet was not going to work with a box that you talked to by flipping levers to make lights blink...was it?

And yea...a boomer did invent the internet (as much as you can say it was "invented"...it grew out of the nuke program Arpanet)

The World Wide Web was invented by English scientist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989. He wrote the first web browser in 1990 while employed at CERN in Switzerland. It has become known simply as the Web

Let's stop this utter stupidity now.

Ya think?

 

Pier Giorgio Perotto (Turin, December 24, 1930 – Genoa, January 23, 2002) was an Italian electrical engineer and inventor. Working for the manufacturer Olivetti, he led a design team that built the Programma 101, the world’s first personal computer.

In 1991, he earned the Leonardo da Vinci Award for having developed a ground-breaking machine, the Programma 101, the world’s very first personal computer.

Name: Leonard Kleinrock

Born: June 13, 1934, New York City


Created the initial idea of the ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet in his first paper entitled "Information Flow in Large Communication Nets" on May 31, 1961.

 

Jesus dude

It is usually called a printing programmable calculator or desktop calculator because three years later the Hewlett-Packard 9100A, a model that took inspiration from the P101, was advertised by HP as a "portable calculator", in order to be able to overcome the fears of computers[6] and be able to sell it to corporations without passing through the corporate computer department.[7][8]

Kinda tough to make that work on the internet huh?

Just stop

 

The Programma 101 was the first commercial "desktop personal computer", produced by the Italian company Olivetti and invented by the Italian engineer Pier Giorgio Perotto, inventor of the magnetic card system. The project started in 1962. It was launched at the 1964 New York World's Fair, and volume production began in 1965, the computer retailing for $3,200.

If you classify a couple years ahead of them as nearly a decade before them, sure.

 

This is a great video. Something has to give. Not enough pie for the little people.

 

In 1991, he earned the Leonardo da Vinci Award for having developed a ground-breaking machine, the Programma 101, the world’s very first personal computer.

 

Is there a stupidity virus infecting Board posters tonight?

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I read that the first time you posted it.
It made little more sense then.

You're talking about a CALCULATOR

 

Take that up with the people who awarded him for inventing the pc.

 

Don't fall for the media's propaganda, they are just trying to sell advertising. The Millennials that I have met are strong willed, hard working men and women who are wicked smart and don't take (*)(*)(*)(*) from people.

 

Anyone can have an opinion but ... is it informed ? Please go watch the short video in post 19 and then we can have a conversation about some of the reasons for why this has happened. Pay attention and you may find yourself on the path of the informed

 

The really stupid thing about this thread is that I'm 62. I don't have a horse in this idiotic race although I am a boomer.

Boomers did phenomenal things...as did the generation before them as did the Gen Xers and the millennial as well.

I don't get this "generational divide" thing going on here at all.

 

Despite my posts, I agree. Computer advancement is multi generational, as demonstrated by the respective sources we both used. My contention was you appeared to argue that boomers had sole responsibility.

 

Sorry I left out a couple of words, I presumed you'd be able to get it. Try spending a few days with low-class African Americans. They may be the lowest class of human, in any civilization. That's obviously extended beyond the US. Racist? Nope. It's their lot and pity, self-pity I might add.

 

Its important to note that they had hardly an responsibility. It was the two generations that they are between that did all the damn work yet those conceited jackals especially like to claim the credit.

 

They did prove to be good at swindling, theft, and all sorts of other unsavory things that lead to the success of Gates and Jobs. However, it did all lead up to my current pc, which is top of the line. Well at least is was before the gtx1080 was released.

 

They've been brainwashed by liberals in the school system since they were in pre-school.

That is the whole thing in a nutshell.

 

Assets, property, then liquidity.

 

Yeah stupid ones who are really just Marxists pushing their stupid (*)(*)(*)(*)ing agenda. It's not cash because it's not liquid nor can it be.

If you try and liquidate it it loses its worth.

Edit: on second thought they are not that stupid. They know it's not possible. That is why it needs to put under the control of the elite in the name of the people. The elite of course being them. They will live like kings as all elite in such Marxist economies and the people will have their equal share of the wealth if only on paper. Nothing will change for the people except what was once hard, changing your station in life, becomes impossible and lif3 in general is worse because the elite are actually incompetent boobs when it comes to running things in the real world.. Unless of course you can join the elites club the life is grand.

These peple are evil mother (*)(*)(*)(*)ers the sooner you figure that out the better. They are using you because they want power.