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ben_wyesterday at 7:42 PM1 replyview on HN

I was a kid in the 90s. Kinda surprised we got the (almost) universal translator before we got fusion.


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m4rtinkyesterday at 11:20 PM

This does happen quite often actually - the logical progression from telegraph to digital Internet networks was interrupted by the invention and deployment of the analog telephone network.

IMHO even analog television and microwave oven look kinda out of place with the technology deployed at the same time.