Over at Collision Detection, Clive Thompson provides a great look back at the first home computers and the need for families to create legitimate reasons to get them. Doing the books, helping with homework and organising recipes were all lame excuses for the real motivations for getting a PC: video games.
Playing video games turbo-boosted the speed of computer development, spawned a generation of programmers, and promises to shape future armies, yet few people take them seriously.
Thankfully, MJ Hibbet over at www.b3ta.com isnt taking it too seriously either. Check out his latest Flash animation look at retro computers: Hey, Hey 16k.
The hilarious video inspired Clives post and got me thinking too. Its full of British references, but if you ever waited patiently while your Vic20 or C64 games loaded via tape-cassette, youll remember why we all got into computers in the first place.
