<divclass ="content"><p> Content: A melancholic song written for NIFTY Serve, a telecommunications services in Japan active from 1987 to 2006. The lyrics in Japanese goes:
真夜中すぎに目が醒めて
君のくれたメ～ル読み返す
まだ見ぬ その笑顔
僕の中で膨らむ
夢はモデムに託すもの
ハ～ドディスクは愛のＬＯＧだらけ
ふたりを つないでる
赤いモジュラ～ケ～ブル
チャットしていたい Ａｈ－
君と朝が来るまで
あふれる文字 時を止める
燃えるハ～ト抑えきれずに
悲しみのNIFTY-Serve
逢いたいけれど 君の
住む街はとても遠く
悲しみのNIFTY-Serve
PAGE 送るよ 今日も
スクラコ～ドは ふたりのイニシャルさ チャットしていたい Ａｈ－
空が白くなるまで
ながれる文字 時を止める
燃える課金払いきれずに
悲しみのNIFTY-Serve
スラユ～しても 君は
知らないだれかとト～ク
悲しみのNIFTY-Serve
ダイヤルするよ 今日も
君のハ～トはHost cleard the call
NIFTY-Serve
逢いたいけれど 君の
住む街はとても遠く
悲しみのNIFTY-Serve
ダイヤルするよ 今日も
君のハ～トはHost cleard the call The auto-translation goes: I woke up after midnight and read back the mail you gave me
The smile I haven't seen yet swells in me
Dreams are left to the modem Her hard disk is full of love LOG
She connects the two with a red modular I want to chat Ah- until the morning comes with you
Overflowing characters Stop the time Burning hearts I can't control
NIFTY-Serve of sadness I want to meet you, but the city you live in is very far away
I'll send you the NIFTY-Serve PAGE of sadness.
I want to chat Ah-until the sky turns white
Characters that flow Stop time Burning charges I can't pay
Sadness NIFTY-Serve Surayu-But you don't know who you are
Sadness NIFTY-Serve I'll dial you today
Your heart is Host cleared the call
NIFTY-Serve I want to meet you, but the city you live in is very far away
Sadness NIFTY-Serve I'll dial you today
Your heart is Host cleared the call</p></div>
<divclass ="annotation"><p> Annotation: writing text in the Nifty serve network, textual networks </p></div>
<divclass ="content"><p> Content: Chiba city blues, razor girl, console cowboy, and the matrix.</p></div>
<divclass ="annotation"><p> Annotation: text is the matrix; sadie plant writing on zeros and ones, text, textile, matrix, networked text, annotation as peripheral text but can be potentially subversive.</p></div>
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<divclass ="title"><p> Title: Newspaper Clip Five Institutes To Host Children’s China Education Computer Demo Contest</p></div>
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<divclass ="content"><p> Content: Transcript in Chinese Auto-translation in English The Ministry of Machinery and Electronics, the Ministry of Health, the State Science and Technology Commission, the China Association for Science and Technology, and the All-China Women's Federation entrusted the China Learning Machine Popularization Association to hold the "Children's Chinese Learning Machine Exhibition Competition" in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and regions on the eve of "June 1". Since the mid-1980s, 110,000 Chinese Educational Computers have entered primary and secondary schools, families and some social groups. In the summer camps, winter camps and some activities held every year, various competitions of Chinese learning machines are indispensable. The age limit for participating in this exhibition competition is 3 to 8 years old. The content of the demo competition is based on educational software, and examines the keystroke method, boot sequence, input speed, etc. The judges will rate according to the age group. The performance time in Beijing is scheduled for May 27.</p></div>
<divclass ="annotation"><p> Annotation: Institutional support and organization for the CEC computer models and computer literacy for children held before the International Children’s Day. Rubric based exam-like competition that cover computer skills that crucially deals with being capable with using text in the computer system: keyboard striking, input speed. The software the competition was using were referred to as “intellectually beneficial software”(????). Note the red ribbon attire worn by a participating child in the photograph. Certainly, there are performative and demonstrative aspects to the event. It is critically and culturally worth to explore the differences between CEC demo competitions, and its Western “counterparts”: live coding and demoscene. It is jawbreaking to draw such a comparison, as live coding and demoscene derive from much less bureaucratic contexts that lean towards artistry and creative expression. To begin with, I argue that based on my personal experience and archival research, the computer literacy project embodied in the lineage that CEC is in, had hinted the vibes of rigorosity and elitism (selection and problem solving agendas as opposed to exploration open to all and open minded: info olympiads, problem sets in magazines). There is a vital potential to subvert this particular version of history of computer literacy. </p></div>
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<divclass ="title"><p> Title: Advertisement of Weifang Computer Company’s CCC (Computers, Communication, Chinese Character Processing) agenda featured in China Educational Magazine</p></div>
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<divclass ="title"><p> Title: Advertisement of Weifang Computer Company’s CCC (Computers, Communication, Chinese Character Processing) agenda featured in China Educational Magazine</p></div>
<divclass ="content"><p> Content: CWS ( Chinese Word Star ) is a Chinese & English word processing system based on Apple II and CEC ( China Educational Computer , a series of clones of Apple II+ / IIe with onboard Chinese ROM & LIB and other enhancements , 1987 - 1993 ). It provides Chinese character processing functions similar to and stronger than Wordstar for the above models, including rich editing shortcut keys, special effects of text printing, Chinese tabulation function, etc. With the help of CWS, the low-end 8-bit microcomputer systems such as Apple II and CEC finally have the most important productivity tool software for word processing.</p></div>
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