This is a photo of the starting point of the net. The gentleman there is actually Sergey Brin's father. All he has to do is pull those wires and the net goes black! Actually this is from a 1954 Popular Mechnanics Magazine.
This is a rendition of a 2004 household computer as envisioned by the Rand Corporation. They believed this would be way beyond many people's affordability.
Could they ever have imagined that our handhelds do more computing than this monstrosity?
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