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Getting ready to run off for family holiday egg-themed extravaganza, but just wanted to share a link I stumbled across on The Onion. A few days back I made a post about how hard it is to actually understand in advance (or even at the time) the import of technological changes. In that spirit, here is an article from 1998:

New $5,000 Multimedia Computer System Downloads Real-Time TV Programs, Displays Them On Monitor.

The whole thing was meant as satire, but a decade later only one part of the headline was wrong...

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