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airadam

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Hip-Hop DJ, photographer, podcaster, Twitch streamer, beatmaker, book inhaler, NBA fan. Oh, and a software engineer by profession, though only expect so much of that here!

Made in Leeds. He/Him.

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Do you, or have you ever, used a graphical user interface? If you use , , or any version of with a window manager or desktop environment, you can thank Dr. Clarence "Skip" Ellis.

Dr. Ellis worked at Xerox PARC, the research organization that developed the modern GUI. Icons, windows, the mouse, Ethernet-based networking, laser printing - all of these (and more) came out of PARC. Dr. Ellis led the team that created Officetalk, the first program to use icons and the Internet. He got his start at 15 years old showing a local tech company how to reuse punch cards, which was a game-changer back in 1958.

Oh, and he was also the first black man to earn a PhD in Computer Science.

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https://elective.collegeboard.org/clarence-skip-ellis-computer-science-pioneer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Ellis_(computer_scientist)
https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes/season-6/clarence-ellis

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@MattFerrel @hoare_spitall @aires @blackmastodon same! I remember the colourful set of disks that came with our Amstrad PC 🙂

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@hoare_spitall @MattFerrel @aires @blackmastodon No, a bit later than that - the 8086-based Amstrad PC 1512 - 512k of RAM, a couple of 5.25" floppy drives, and CGA graphics! It came with MS-DOS and GEM, and was the first exposure to the IBM PC world for most people I knew 🙂

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It's only a podcast if you can subscribe to it using RSS and play back with an application of your choice, otherwise it's just sparkling audio.

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