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Early PC graphics were wild: A look back at the pre-GPU era

For most people, the story of graphics cards starts with Nvidia and AMD. The reality is quite different. Long before either of those two companies started to dominate the market, and long before GPUs ...
Artnet

Who Were the Women Who Pioneered Early Computer Art?

“It’s just like planning a dinner,” the renowned computer scientist Grace Hopper once quipped about computing in a 1967 issue of Cosmopolitan. “You have to plan ahead and schedule everything so it’s ...
Brownstoner

Series on Early Computer Graphics at the Museum of the Moving Image this Weekend

Now that electronics control our lives, the Museum of the Moving Image will present a three-day series about films from the Good Old Days, when science fiction trumped computer science. Seven sessions ...

In 1999, NVIDIA introduced the GeForce 256, helping graphics chips handle modern visual computing

NVIDIA's 1999 GeForce 256 graphics card revolutionized computing by introducing parallel processing, initially for games.