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Re: Does Your Computer Look Like This?

Michael D. Sullivan (userid@camsul.example.invalid)
Sat, 02 Apr 2005 05:14:40 GMT

Patrick Townson wrote:

> In 1954, the well-known Popular Electronics Magazine in connection
> with the Rand Corporation put together an artist's conception of what
> computers would look like in fifty years, in 2004. Look at it here.

> http://www.mountainwings.com/past/5082.htm

> This is _not_ an April Fool's joke.

No, it's not an April Fool's joke. It's a hoax. The photo at issue
came from a Photoshopping competition on fark.com. Debunked at:
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp

-- 


Michael D. Sullivan
Bethesda, MD (USA)
(Replace "example.invalid" with "com" in my address.)


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Shucks, gee-whiz; I can't get anything
past you guys, can I?  Oh well, Patrick, nice try, but no cigar.  PAT]

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