XPost: comp.os.linux.misc   
   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 11/12/2025 04:12, c186282 wrote:   
   > Everybody thought   
   >    that the 1950s were the pinnacle of modern civ ...   
   >    "What else WOULD you need to add in ???".   
   Reminds me of a brand new factory in Jo'burg. Solid concrete walls and a   
   tin roof. And nnot a single socket or light that worked.   
      
   The contractor brought in to fix it spent 20 minutes looking and then   
   said 'Fuck that - get the Kangas' and simply chipped new channels for   
   *everything*. Laid in pipe conduit and got wiring.   
      
   Before the days of computers that was, let alone networking. We used Telex.   
      
   --   
   The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to   
   rule.   
   – H. L. Mencken, American journalist, 1880-1956   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)