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Personal computers and information networks
Global computer industries
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Themes
1750-1820 Enlightenment & Measurement
1800-1860 Manufacture by Machine
1820-1880 Industrial Town
1820-1880 Age of the Engineer
1870-1914 Second Industrial Revolution
1914-1939 Age of the Mass
1930-1968 Defiant Modernism
1950-1965 Design Diversity
1960-2000 Age of Ambivalence
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Sinclair ZX80 microcomputer, 1980
Nintendo 'Game Boy', 1989
Microsoft 'Windows' operation system, version 3.1, 1992
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Personal computers and information networks
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The early Internet
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Early home computers
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Picking winners
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WWW
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Global computer industries
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Dot com goldrush
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Conclusion
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