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Crash Course Computer Science
Screens & 2D Graphics: Crash Course Computer Science #23
Season 1
Episode 23
Today we begin our discussion of computer graphics. So we ended last episode with the proliferation of command line (or text) interfaces, which sometimes used screens, but typically electronic typewriters or teletypes onto paper. But by the early 1960s a number of technologies were introduced to make screens much more useful from cathode ray tubes and graphics cards to ASCII art and light pens. Th
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Today we start a three episode arc on the rise of a global telecommunications network.
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