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Video Card History

Posted by Hemos on from the walking-down-memory-lane dept.

John Mathers writes "While searching the net for information on old Voodoo Video Cards, I came across this fabulous Video Card History article up at FastSilicon.com. It's nice to see that someone has taken the time to look back on the Video Cards that revolutionized the personal computer. Here's a quote "When 3dfx released their first card in October of 1996, it hit the computer world like a right cross to the face. That card was called Voodoo. This new card held the door open for video game development. The Voodoo card was simply a 3D graphics accelerator, which was plugged into a regular 2D video card; known as piggy backing."

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  1. fp! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post!!!!

    1. Re:fp! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      congratulations! you have earned the right to vigorously whack off and spooge on rob malda and jeff homos.

  2. first piss by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    piss first

  3. 1996? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Coming soon - geological history of the planet Earth from October 2003 onwards.

    What a dull, pointless load of pointless dull bollocks.

  4. Re:Blurb from article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Use the Penis, Fag!

  5. Facinating story, but this sites tag line is not.. by Osrin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... "History for Nerds and Stuff that used to matter."

  6. Chuck-E-Cheese by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I remember going to a Chuck-E-Cheese restaurant once when visiting relatives in the US. That must have been the spookiest fast food chain I ever saw. Really, that mouse gives me the creeps. I hope it never comes to Europe.