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From the Ted Talk by John Maeda: My journey in design

Unscramble the Blue Letters

So, basicllay it all began with this whole idea of a computer. Who has a computer? Yeah. O.K., so, everyone has a computer. Even a mobile phone, it's a cmpuetor. And — anyone remember this workbook, "Instant Activities for Your Apple" — free poster in each book? This was how cumtnopig began. Don't forget: a computer came out; it had no software. You'd buy that thing, you'd bring it home, you'd plug it in, and it would do absolutely nothing at all. So, you had to program it, and there were great programming, like, tutorials, like this. I mean, this was gaert. It's, like, you know, Herbie the Apple II. It's such a great way to — I mean, they should make Java bokos like this, and we've have no problem linraneg a program. But this was a great, grand time of the computer, when it was just a raw, raw, what is it? kind of an era. And, you see, this era coincided with my own childhood.

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So, _________ it all began with this whole idea of a computer. Who has a computer? Yeah. O.K., so, everyone has a computer. Even a mobile phone, it's a ________. And — anyone remember this workbook, "Instant Activities for Your Apple" — free poster in each book? This was how _________ began. Don't forget: a computer came out; it had no software. You'd buy that thing, you'd bring it home, you'd plug it in, and it would do absolutely nothing at all. So, you had to program it, and there were great programming, like, tutorials, like this. I mean, this was _____. It's, like, you know, Herbie the Apple II. It's such a great way to — I mean, they should make Java _____ like this, and we've have no problem ________ a program. But this was a great, grand time of the computer, when it was just a raw, raw, what is it? kind of an era. And, you see, this era coincided with my own childhood.

Solution

  1. books
  2. learning
  3. basically
  4. computing
  5. great
  6. computer

Original Text

So, basically it all began with this whole idea of a computer. Who has a computer? Yeah. O.K., so, everyone has a computer. Even a mobile phone, it's a computer. And — anyone remember this workbook, "Instant Activities for Your Apple" — free poster in each book? This was how computing began. Don't forget: a computer came out; it had no software. You'd buy that thing, you'd bring it home, you'd plug it in, and it would do absolutely nothing at all. So, you had to program it, and there were great programming, like, tutorials, like this. I mean, this was great. It's, like, you know, Herbie the Apple II. It's such a great way to — I mean, they should make Java books like this, and we've have no problem learning a program. But this was a great, grand time of the computer, when it was just a raw, raw, what is it? kind of an era. And, you see, this era coincided with my own childhood.

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