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December 18, 2000

I forgot how utterly useless

I forgot how utterly useless a computer is when it doesn't have a network connection. Five years ago, people laughed at the slogan "the network is the computer" but it's true today. Without a connection to other machines, a computer is nothing but a thousand-dollar doorstop. In beige.

Posted at December 18, 2000 04:00 AM