Technically Speaking

Remember how computers looked in the early 1950s? (Okay, I admit, I don’t actually ‘remember,’ since I wasn’t actually there…) but the computers took up entire buildings–or at least entire floors of buildings. The dream of a ‘home computer’ was a long ways off.

Check out the following image reportedly from a 1954 Popular Mechanics article. The picture is said to be of a model of the home computer dream as it would probably look in the year 2004. Click on the image to view a larger version, and be sure to read the caption.

However, now you have to read this article, that shows that this image is really a hoax (albeit a funny one). The image was submitted to an image-modification contest, and has since been taken as truth, instead of fiction.

Ahhh. Internet rumors and falsehoods. But I thought this was pretty funny anyway.

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