• AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They’ve been doing this for literally centuries.

    *Proceeds to talk about floppy disks

    How long do you think digital computers have been around?

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      1 year ago

      For centuries. Justification: Jesus was dead for three days: from Friday afternoon (3pm?), day 1, through Saturday, day 2, and into Sunday early morning (6am?), day 3. Total elapsed time 39 hours. Digital computers were around last century (19xx) and this century (20xx), which is two centuries by the same logic. Also two millenia, but I find “centuries” a more satisfying word. Colossus went into operation in 1943, so that’s 80 years elapsed time.