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Tomorrowland
The Last Archive
The History of Computers
Before thumb drives and floppy disks, there were punch cards. They stored information for a computer by encoding it in these tiny holes. We can still read ancient parchments thousands of years later, but old punch cards are useless after just a few decades because hardly anyone has the machines you need to read them. The Simulmatics Corporation was founded in 1959, a big year for computing. It wound up being like the Cambridge Analytica of the presidential election of 1960.
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