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[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

I can barely get my wife to understand virtualization/containerization and she’s very intelligent, let alone someone from the 18th century who couldn’t even comprehend what a computer was.

This likely has more to do with my shitty explaining ability than anything else. 😊

[-] bjornsno@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

I manage computer systems.

  • What's a computer? It's a fancy calculator that can make moving paintings very quickly
  • What's a calculator? A fancy automatic loom that can do math like an abacus
[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

At some point I’d believe their head would explode. I mean they wouldn’t even understand electricity. That wasn’t until about 50 years later.

[-] monk@lemmy.unboiled.info 1 points 9 months ago

Congrats, you're 12% there.

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