Until the mid-1990s, the most common term for capturing the contents of a computer screen was “screen dump.” Perhaps a surprising term to us, it refers to dumping the content of a text-only screen into a text file, or even dumping the content of a graphical frame buffer to a printer. The action here is not the photographic capture or the weaponized shot but the emptying of content or data, the offloading of information from one object to another. The term begins to make sense if we consider it in its historical context. While in the 1960s and 1970s researchers were primarily concerned with establishing the algorithms, software, and hardware that would make possible interactive computing as a technical practice, by the end of the decade we begin to see this work commercialized, first for office and industry, and later for the growing home computing market. The principal player in this turn toward commercialization is arguably the Xerox Corporation, whose Palo Alto Research Center – known as Xerox PARC – effectively invented the personal computer in the first half of the 1970s before famously failing to commercialize its efforts. 1Douglas K. Smith and Robert C. Alexander, Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, then Ignored, the First Personal Computer (Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, 1999).