VANITY: Modern Computer Technology (1954/2004)

Email ^ | 1954 | RAND Corp.

[KoRn]

LOL I also didn't think of racing games.

[SamAdams76]

Back in those days of early computing, you had to wear a coat and tie to even get near a computer.

[SE Mom]

Snopes takes all the fun out of pranks:)

[pookie18]

I thought it might be a hoax.. :( But you had to ruin the fun.. :((

Well, I got the e-mail last week & sent it out to several people...got 2 hoax e-mails in return....so just spreading the wealth ;-)

[Dallas59]

That's next....

[edg2103]

This is a hoax, guys, and an old one (by internet standards) at that. See here for more information: Does Not COmpute

[Political Junkie Too]

Forget it. There's no joystick.

-PJ

[Dawgmeister]

Coaxial device drivers?

[MeekOneGOP]

Oh, this is great. Thank you, Fiddlstix!

VANITY: Modern Computer Technology (1954/2004)

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[Fiddlstix]

pookie18

Lighten Up!
It's meant to be HUMOR!
(Take a look)

[Nik Naym]

My money is on this being a modern photo-shop picture. For one thing, the steering wheel is obviously pasted in. And why on earth would they put it there? and a console TV stuck to the wall? Nah.

But the kicker: the teletype/printer/keyboard thingy is obviously at least a decade younger than 1954.

This is a joke, hoax, or whatever you want to call it.

Nik

[xcamel]

I hate to break it to you, but that photo is a HOAX - check snopes.com

The big printer was added to the photo (look closely). The truth is that photo is of a prototype operators panel for our nuclear sub fleet.

Hat to "burst yer bubble", but that's the story.

[pookie18]

Lighten Up! It's meant to be HUMOR!

You're telling ME to lighten up???

[Fresh Wind]

I used to have a book "Giant Machines that Think" by Edmund Berkeley written in 1949. I sold it on eBay a few years back. There was one paragraph I saved as it was so prophetic:

"We can even imagine what new machinery for handling information may some day become: a small pocket instrument that we carry around with us, talking to it whenever we need to, and either storing information in it or receiving information from it."

[Fiddlstix]

TO ALL MY CRITICS!

Please Take A Look Again!

As Posted:

TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Click to Add Topic
KEYWORDS: HUMOR; Click to Add Keyword

It WAS Posted as HUMOR!

(Get It?)
J

[al baby]

Use the keyboard .

How quaint who said that?

[tubebender]

The same subject thread the other day was a lot more fun because you were at Grammies house eating turkey... :^(

[Cicero]

Preferably a bow tie.

[xJones]

My family and I got a big laugh out of this thread. Thanks.:)

[pookie18]

The same subject thread the other day was a lot more fun because you were at Grammies house eating turkey... :^(

Oh, so this was a duplicate post ;-) Actually, I was at my son's house in VA. I know that when I post a piece from Scrapple Face, Broken Newz, etc., I get "yelled at" if I don't put "humor" or "parody" on the subject line...even when the stories are outrageous...