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September 16, 2004
Thursday
 
 
The internet is a thing of many wonders
Samizdata Illuminatus (Arkham, Massachusetts)  Arts & Entertainment • Humour

I cannot help but suspect that Babbage and Turing never really envisaged the marvellous uses to which computing devices would be set.

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More lunacy along the same lines is here:

http://www.b3ta.com


Posted by J at September 16, 2004 04:42 PM

wonderful!


Posted by mike at September 16, 2004 04:47 PM

And if Babbage or Turing had envisaged this, they would probably have decided that their talents would be far more usefully employed in the field of, say, dentistry.


Posted by David Carr at September 16, 2004 05:33 PM

Those guys have way too much spare time.


Posted by Ian Bennett at September 17, 2004 11:03 AM

Aaah, my eyes! That was horrible...
Please, dont do that again!


Posted by lemuel at September 17, 2004 06:23 PM

Aw, that was one of Joel's nice ones. If you think that was bad try
THIS. By the way, for anyone in the UK who is interested the same guy does the Switch/Maestro adverts.


Posted by Julian Taylor at September 18, 2004 10:28 AM
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