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Video Games: A Brief History and their Effects on Society by Cuauhtemoc Rodriguez Jr.

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Video Games: A Brief History and their Effects on Society by Cuauhtemoc Rodriguez Jr. Video Games are electronic games where players control images that are produced by a computer screen on a television or some type of display screen. They can be played with and controlled by a specialized electronic gaming device such as a joystick, a gaming controller, a portable gaming system, or even a computer keyboard and mouse. Most popular video games today are played on consoles with great graphics and processing speeds, as well as with controllers that have better “haptic feedback” as the video games slideshow states for week 15. The very first video games were not as advanced as they are today and could not support complex images or controls. In fact, according to the Video Games slideshow from Week 15, the first computer game, OXO, was processed on a large research computer and was written in 1952. Tennis for Two was then invented in 1958 but it wasn’t considered an electronic game be...

Blog #1 : The Personal Computer is Important to Today's Society - Cuauhtemoc Rodriguez Jr.

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  Blog #1 : The Personal Computer is Important to Today's Society -       by Cuauhtemoc Rodriguez Jr.      The Personal Computer, or PC, is a valuable asset and piece of technology in today’s society that has helped connect people around the world from the comfort of their home and has digitized certain jobs and work that were previously only done in person. They allow us to even have digital communication and connect us to online databases through the Internet, which we use on a daily basis to pay bills, book flights, do college assignments, respond to, and check our emails, google national news, or just to look up cooking recipes online. Ever since laptops began outselling desktops in 2008 as the online slideshow for PC’s says, it has become more and more common to see people at work and school carrying laptops around and using them on a daily basis. Amidst the current COVID-19 pandemic, the personal computer has become even more important as we...