cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27501866
source: @n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca
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But you don’t know what I mean. Computers as most people know them now are tablets and cell phones. I blame X and the elder millennials for that.
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Computers filled rooms back when the boomers (and earlier gens) were creating them, so even a desktop isn’t how they were known then. But it laid the groundwork.
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Was Franklin laying the groundwork for computers as we know them when he discovered electricity? You have to cut things off somewhere for a statement like that.
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It could be said so, but it’s a much, much more distant connection than working on things that are literally called “computers.”
