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gwern • today at 4:19 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

For perspective, that's >$320k today. For 'switching apps'. It's always kinda crazy to look back and realize how incredibly minute and small programs were back them. Like 'spellcheck' being a project you'd assign half a dozen programmers to or Knuth would write almost a book about.


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jakelazaroff • today at 4:48 AM

One of my favorite programming blogs has a post on exactly that: https://prog21.dadgum.com/29.html

thechairman12 • today at 4:24 AM

Whimsical follow up here: $100k invested in the S&P 500 around 1984 would be $4.5mm today. Thought some people would like to know this as well :)

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