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James Ryan
@xfoml
ghosts of computational media past ⟐ cs prof, carleton college ⟐ phd ‘18, computational media, uc santa cruz ⟐ he/him ⟐ proprietor, @aleatorpress
Dec 7, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
line-printer Snoopy calendars as prominent criminal enterprise (1978)

in a congressional hearing, Sen. Joe Biden implores a DOJ official to exonerate a suspect of the most rampant computer crime of the late 1970s: producing a line-printer Snoopy calendar

🧵 Charles Schulz had apparently cracked down on the practice in the 1960s, perhaps with some success (I've handled examples from the 1970s)

but the production of line-printer Snoopy calendars was not criminalized for reasons of intellectual property, but rather computer "misuse"
Nov 2, 2017 • 14 tweets • 7 min read
in honor of National Novel Generation Month (#NaNoGenMo), here's a partial timeline outlining the early history of computer-generated books 1956: Pfizer, Inc., carries out the bizarre project of printing and binding a book of computer-generated drug names