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A romp through time, on how we got our problems written down / ready to be read by a computer.
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Reading a message.md
  • 1940s : "In my day we wrote down our problems"
  • 1950s : "In my day we plugged wires in manually"
  • 1970s : "In my day we read punch cards not "key" boards"
  • 1980s : "In my day we deserialized the baud connections manually"
  • 1990s : "In my day we read a shared key state mask"
  • 2000s : "In my day we listened for when buttons are pressed on the BIOS itself"
  • 2010s : "In my day we read our chars from a buffer"
  • 2020s : "In my day we waited for keys to be pressed"
  • 2030s : "In my day we used to have movies about terminators"
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