Seeing the Bullshit...
Pong! - Military Weapon or Simple Video Game?

Overvieiw:

Do you remember the good old days? I sure do. Long hours-playing mindless video games on my Atari 2600 (which I still own...and works). The simple joys of running frogs across the road, jumping barrels to save the princess, and pointless odysseys in unforgiving dungeons. But with all the games out there for the Atari, only one stands out, it was the first video game ever made. It's title: Pong!

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Ghetto Street

Overvieiw:

Ever so often I unfortunately have to sit though a kid's TV show. Not the greatest experience ever, but I have come to the conclusion that some of these shows are not the best thing for kid's to be watching. If you pay full attention to such an innocent show as Sesame Street, even that is not good for children. Alot of people ask why my generation is a fucked up mess. I believe this is due to the TV we watched. Not gangster rap, violent video games, or the technology that replaced human interaction.

This will be the first section of the "I saw through the Bullshit" detailing the truth about the TV shows, the games we played, and how we grew up. This first part entails how Sesame Street was a totally not an appropriate show for children.

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The True American Pie

Overview:

It's not well known, but while Don McLean was writing songs in the late 60's and early 70's, he was taking Computer Science courses at Harvard in order to learn about what was then primitive music software. He even eye witnessed the original Mark II and its famous moth. By an act of fate, he became acquainted with a teenage prodigy with whom he shared some classes; a boy that McLean would later characterize as "Satan", who would seize control of the entire world's computer software industry. That boy was Bill Gates. McLean wrote an uncannily accurate prophetic vision a la Nostradamus and wrote a song, "American Pi" (frequently misspelled "Pie"), about the Golden Age of Computing.

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