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Cyanide & Happiness
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About
Hello fellow Cyanide and Happiness fans!
Cyanide & Happiness (C&H) is a webcomic created by Rob DenBleyker, Kris Wilson, Dave McElfatrick and Matt Melvin. The comic has been running since 2005 and is published on the website explosm.net along with animated shorts in the same style. Matt Melvin left C&H in 2014, and several other people have contributed to the comic and to the animated shorts
Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide_%26_Happiness
Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, media, cool stuff about the authors, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s Cyanide & Happiness related!
History
@MrSebSin@sh.itjust.works started this community and wrote:
About this community and how I post the comics… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. Of course these days you can read your favorite comics online instead of a newspaper, but I love the nostalgia of reading the daily comics. Anyway, one of my favorite current comics is Cyanide and Happiness and I will be posting the daily release from their website (https://explosm.net/) and a an extra or two randoms.
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The comic assumes MLK Jr. had a concept of "computer."
He died in 1968 and the first product that significantly resembles a modern computer was released in 1970.
Um, ENIAC was a computer that filled an entire room, and was around from 1945 to 1955. And ENIAC was not the only computer at that time either.
But would he have recognised a cigarette-packet-sized device that shows text and pictures and responds to touches as the same class of object as the room-sized mainframes that processed payrolls for corporations and were controlled with punchcards? Without real-time processing, VDU terminals, microcomputers and GUIs to bridge the gap, they’d be essentially two very different things.
I am pretty sure you are overthinking a Cyanide and Happiness comic.
Ok, and how many people, outside of those that used them, would ever have any clue what that was? How many regular everyday americans do you think would know what you're talking about, either back then, or today, if you said you work with an "ENIAC"?
I think officermike's point fully still stands.
Sure, there were (and apparently still are) ignorant people. But my argument would be just as valid as (possibly more) both yours and officermikes.
"When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, & militarism are incapable of being conquered."
— Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.