The web that time forgot
A neat little history story describing an belgian attempt to create a network of all the world’s information back at the end of the 19th century.
Frank Carver's musings about software and life
A neat little history story describing an belgian attempt to create a network of all the world’s information back at the end of the 19th century.
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Steve wrote:
It’s surprising what can be done without digital computers. In the 70’s, we ran a mill with 24 production lines, each over a kilometre long with 10 stages. It was almost fully automated, using nothing but analogue pneumatic computers…
Kids today eh? They don’t know they’re born!
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