Neil Brown on Nostr: Many people: I can’t believe this computery thing has stopped working. It is so ...
Many people: I can’t believe this computery thing has stopped working. It is so flaky.
Me, and some other people: I can’t believe this computery thing ever worked at all. We are using hot sand, electrical pulses, and flashes of light, across thousands of kilometres of cabling and fibre to enable people on opposite sides of the earth to chat with each other in real time using tiny, relatively affordable, handheld screens. It is a sodding miracle that it works, let alone works 99.9% of the time!
Me, and some other people: I can’t believe this computery thing ever worked at all. We are using hot sand, electrical pulses, and flashes of light, across thousands of kilometres of cabling and fibre to enable people on opposite sides of the earth to chat with each other in real time using tiny, relatively affordable, handheld screens. It is a sodding miracle that it works, let alone works 99.9% of the time!