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2. FaceTime - Wikipedia

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   The application allows users to have two-person calls similar to using a real walkie-talkie, as conversations are push-to-talk and only one end of the conversation can speak at a time. [23] Walkie-Talkie is intended for short and quick messages between two people rather than long conversations which are better suited for traditional phone or ...

3. Social media - Wikipedia

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   The PLATO system was launched in 1960 at the University of Illinois and subsequently commercially marketed by Control Data Corporation.It offered early forms of social media features with innovations such as Notes, PLATO's message-forum application; TERM-talk, its instant-messaging feature; Talkomatic, perhaps the first online chat room; News Report, a crowdsourced online newspaper, and blog ...

4. Library (computing) - Wikipedia

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   Another library technique uses completely separate executables (often in some lightweight form) and calls them using a remote procedure call (RPC) over a network to another computer. This maximizes operating system re-use: the code needed to support the library is the same code being used to provide application support and security for every ...

5. Harassment - Wikipedia

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   Shimei curses David, 1860 woodcut by Julius Schnorr von Karolsfeld. Attested in English from 1753, [1] harassment derives from the English verb harass plus the suffix -ment.The verb harass, in turn, is a loan word from the French, which was already attested in 1572 meaning torment, annoyance, bother, trouble [2] and later as of 1609 was also referred to the condition of being exhausted, overtired.

6. Editor war - Wikipedia

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   The editor war is the rivalry between users of the Emacs and vi (now usually Vim, or more recently Neovim) text editors.The rivalry has become an enduring part of hacker culture and the free software community.

7. Vacuum-tube computer - Wikipedia

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   Other innovations included the use of magnetic tape to store large volumes of data in compact form and the introduction of random access secondary storage (IBM RAMAC 305), the direct ancestor of all the hard disk drives we use today. Even computer graphics began during the vacuum tube era with the IBM 740 CRT Data Recorder and the Whirlwind ...