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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Today $300 or less can buy a watch that runs UNIX, can emulate any machine in 1981 in realtime, and stream data from the ~~ARPA~~Internet over a wireless connection orders of magnitude faster than any leased line.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I think you had it right, let's bring ARPANET back.

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