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Web Designers Versus/Vs. Web Developers.

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Blue's News share an amusing infographic on Trey Connell whowing the differences between current web designers and web developers.

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Damn You, Auto Correct!

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Neatorama shares "Damn You, Autocorrect!" (has cussings and not safe for work (NSFW)) -- "If you have an iPhone, iPod, or iPad, you know how annoying the Auto Correct feature can be. It changes words without rhyme or reason, and if you're chatting with someone and hit 'send' too quickly, it can really make you look like an idiot.

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Are you going to get a Kinect?

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Displays: The Changing View -- A Brief History of Computer Displays

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Vintage Computing and Gaming shares a twenty pages PC World slide show showing "a brief history of computer displays. From blinking lights and punch cards to liquid crystal displays (LCDs) and third dimension (3D) flat panels, we trace the 70-year history of the tech/technology that users rely on to see what a computer is doing...

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Darth Vader in Games: A Visual History

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This twelve pages Internet Gaming Network (IGN) article shows "Star Wars' Darth Vader in Games: A Visual History -- We celebrate Star Wars' greatest villain in pixels and polygons.

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The Demoscene Documentary

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Blue's News shares The Scene Documentary's six parts YouTube video playlist (has some nudity artworks) showing its "Demoscene Documentary" in its entirety.

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Thirteen/13 Nintendo Game Boy Oddities

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Vintage Gaming and Computing shares a fourteen/14 pages Technologizer article showing thirteen/13 strange lives of the most popular gaming handheld ever

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The History of Activision

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This five pages IGN article talks about "The History of Activision" -- "As both a business pioneer and a creative powerhouse, Activision has left an indelible impact on gamers everywhere. From its humble beginnings as the original third-party console developer to their present day incarnation as the industry's leading publisher, Activision didn't just innovate great games over the years, it evolved the way they're produced, marketed, and sold. Without them, the industry could be a very different place..."

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Twelve (12) Forgotten Online Games

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/. shares a PC Magazine slideshow showing "twelve (12) forgotten online games" from the early online services before the Internet.

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Is the Web heading toward redirect hell?

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Royal Pingdom reports that every web sites seems to be heading toward redirect hell -- "Google is doing it. Facebook is doing it. Yahoo is doing it. Microsoft is doing it. And soon Twitter will be doing it.

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Finding Stuff Online: 20 Years of Innovative Search Engines

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Vintage Computing and Gaming shares a 21 pages PC World slideshow showing "Finding Stuff Online: 20 Years of Innovative Search Engines. What would the Internet be without a way to find something specific on its millions of sites? Search engines started providing that function two decades ago. Here are some of the landmarks, from Archie to AltaVista to Google and Bing..."

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Hardcore Gaming 101

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Hardcore Gaming 101 is a "classic gaming review" with all kinds of information (e.g., history), comments, screen shots/captures, downloads, etc. Note th

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The Future of Demo Art: The Demoscene in the 2010s

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Ville-Matias Heikkilä (viznut/pwp) shares his random thoughts about the future of the demoscene titled "The Future of Demo Art: The Demoscene in the 2010s" -- "In end of a decade is often regarded as an end of an era. Around the new year 2009-2010, I was thinking a lot about the future of demo art, which I have been involved with since the mid-nineties. The mental processes that led to this essay were also inspired by various events of the 2010s..."

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