Chapter: Comics └ Tags: Computers, Internet, Romans Related Comics ¬ 556 – A Bug’s Life 547 – TeX appeal 646 – Snake eyes 532 – Life Sentence 408 – Rain on your parade
I’m guessing that a sufficiently large abacus with a person operating a well-chosen set of algorithms would be Turing-complete, hence theoretically this sort of arrangement could work. Maybe.
I wonder how CAPTCHA would’ve worked
Nice… but…
DOES IT RUN WINDOWS???
Of course it can’t, but it can run 34 different versions of Linux.
The technology in this cartoon clearly foreshadows that new-fangled token ring networking… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Token_ring
I don’t see how the alt text is in any way different from our current situation.
Shh! There’s a webcomic artist in the room! I know he doesn’t look like one, but there are clues if you know where to look.