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  2. Terraria - Wikipedia

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    Action-adventure, sandbox. Mode (s) Single-player, multiplayer. Terraria ( / təˈrɛəriə / ⓘ [1]) is a 2011 action-adventure sandbox game developed by Re-Logic. The game was first released for Windows and has since been ported to other PC and console platforms. The game features exploration, crafting, building, painting, and combat with a ...

  3. History of mobile phones - Wikipedia

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    History of mobile phones. A man talks on his mobile phone while standing near a conventional telephone box, which stands empty. Enabling technology for mobile phones was first developed in the 1940s but it was not until the mid-1980s that they became widely available. By 2011, it was estimated in Britain that more calls were made using mobile ...

  4. Martin Cooper (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    On April 3, 1973, he placed the first public call from a handheld portable cell phone while working at Motorola, from a Manhattan sidewalk to his counterpart at competitor Bell Labs. [4] [5] Cooper reprised the first handheld cellular mobile phone (distinct from the car phone ) in 1973 and led the team that re-developed it and brought it to ...

  5. Motorola DynaTAC - Wikipedia

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    Motorola DynaTAC. A DynaTAC 8000X; the first commercially available mobile phone from 1983. Martin Cooper of Motorola made the first publicized handheld mobile phone call on a prototype DynaTAC model on April 3, 1973. This is a reenactment in 2007. The DynaTAC is a series of cellular telephones manufactured by Motorola from 1983 to 1994.

  6. In 'Telephone of the Tree,' a mysterious phone helps ... - AOL

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    By: Alison McGhee. Publisher: Rocky Pond, 196 pages, $17.99. "Telephone of the Tree" is not, technically, a mystery. But there is a human mystery at the core of Alison McGhee's book, and young ...

  7. Glossary of video game terms - Wikipedia

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    1CC. Abbreviation of one-credit completion or one-coin clear. To complete an arcade (or arcade-style) game without using continues. [1] 1-up. An object that gives the player an extra life (or attempt) in games where the player has a limited number of chances to complete a game or level. [2] 100%.

  8. Steampunk - Wikipedia

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    Steampunk. Original illustration of Jules Verne 's Nautilus engine room. "Maison tournante aérienne" (aerial rotating house) by Albert Robida for his book Le Vingtième Siècle, a 19th-century conception of life in the 20th century. Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction that incorporates retrofuturistic technology and aesthetics inspired ...

  9. Cell site - Wikipedia

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    A cell site, cell phone tower, cell base tower, or cellular base station is a cellular -enabled mobile device site where antennas and electronic communications equipment are placed (typically on a radio mast, tower, or other raised structure) to create a cell, or adjacent cells, in a cellular network. The raised structure typically supports ...