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How Computers Took Over Our Lives with Laine Nooney

Factually! with Adam Conover

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The History of the Personal Computer

Even in the 90s only a third of us households had a personal computer. I think it this history has kind of undermined assumptions we have about the inherent popularity of computing. The internet is something the internet sells the personal computer in a way that the personal computer could not sell itself yes.

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