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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (4 children)

They've been doing this for literally centuries.

*Proceeds to talk about floppy disks

How long do you think digital computers have been around?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

They've existed in at least two centuries

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Hush! Don't point it out! Lure him into a corner and steal his time machine!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

For centuries. Justification: Jesus was dead for three days: from Friday afternoon (3pm?), day 1, through Saturday, day 2, and into Sunday early morning (6am?), day 3. Total elapsed time 39 hours. Digital computers were around last century (19xx) and this century (20xx), which is two centuries by the same logic. Also two millenia, but I find "centuries" a more satisfying word. Colossus went into operation in 1943, so that's 80 years elapsed time.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Fails to recognize exaggeration, thinks they're clever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Fails to aggerate, fails to be taken seriously