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		chihuahua 6 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Elim... I guess the idea that a programmer can create software that then runs on multiple computers would have blown their mind.

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tralarpa 5 days ago [–]

VisiCalc was published in 1979.

marcosdumay 5 days ago | [–]

The future used to be way less widely distributed than it is now.

Lisp machines were also created in 1979, pushing the concept that using a computer is programing.

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