Hi everyone,

Please enjoy this latest Computer History Museum blog on the first time digital images were displayed in their native electronic form. This 1981 public demonstration of digital art centered on the ‘frame buffer,’ a critical piece of tech that made computer graphics possible.

By anthropologist and author Catharina E. Santasilia.

A Historic Pixel Art Exhibition

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Dag Spicer
Senior Curator
Computer History Museum
Editorial Board, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
ACM History Committee
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Mountain View CA 94043

“History is a vast early warning system.”

— Norman Cousins, American journalist (1915-1990).

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