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[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I wouldn’t even count early computers as modern technology. If it took up an entire room, that’s not really modern.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ethiopian village running a mainframe

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Every morning at 4am, the village children wake up. With swatters in hand, they race into the memory banks, ready to debug the relays before the morning batch job is run.

[–] jaybone 1 points 10 months ago

They just made it smaller and faster. All the same principles apply.