I’d Like To Go Back To A Time When Computers Looked Like This

Not because computers looked like this, of course — I work for the Internet; that’d be crazy — but because it’s been 27 years since the world has experienced a colder-than-average month and I’m really starting to miss my winter breaks actually feeling like, well … winter. Don’t you think it’s time for things to…

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Rebecca Eisenberg

Dec 21, 2012

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