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100

the SKYNET (surveillance program)

what is SKYNET is a program by the U.S. National Security Agency that performs machine learning analysis on communications data to extract information about possible terror suspects. 

100

the fight arcade game with digitized characters 

what is final Mortal Kombat arcade game used eight megabytes of graphics data, with each character having 64 colors and around 300 frames of animation Footage for the game's digitized characters was filmed with Tobias' personal Hi-8 camcorder 

100

before home video of VCR invention

what is Wiping, also known as junking, is a colloquial term of art for action taken by radio and television production and broadcasting companies, in which old audiotapes, videotapes, and telerecordings (kinescopes), are erased, reused, or destroyed. Although the practice was once very common, especially in the 1960s and 1970s, wiping is now practiced much less frequently.

100

the XANA  

what is XANA, is an evil and powerful computer virus based on a multi-agent system evolved until it achieved self-awareness, choosing to betray Franz and trap him and his daughter Aelita inside Lyoko. Franz has no choice but to shut down the Supercomputer to stop its rampage. After it was reawakened in the present day, X.A.N.A. continues to wreak havoc on Earth and displays no mercy towards those who stand in its way. It eventually grows more powerful with every return in time, and conceives of greater plans and goals beyond random destruction. 

200

the Write Once, Run Anywhere (WORA)

what is  Java language had been James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton initiated the Java language project was originally designed for interactive television, but it was too advanced for the digital cable television industry at the time by the name Green and was finally renamed Java, from Java coffee, a type of coffee from Indonesia?. .[

300

 the technical foundation of the Internet.

what is Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was the first wide-area packet-switched network with distributed control and one of the first networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite was established by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the United States Department of Defense was formally decommissioned in 1990, after partnerships with the telecommunication and computer industry had assured private sector expansion and future commercialization of an expanded world-wide network, known as the Internet. .

400

the first text-to-speech 

first computer-based speech-synthesis systems originated in the late 1950s. Noriko Umeda et al. developed the first general English text-to-speech system in 1968, at the Electrotechnical Laboratory in Japan

500

the first spreadsheet computer software

what is LANPAR, available in 1969 was the first electronic spreadsheet on mainframe and time sharing computers?

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