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On 11/12/2025 04:12, c186282 wrote:
> Everybody thought
>  ÿ that the 1950s were the pinnacle of modern civ ...
>  ÿ "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


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