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What a home computer will look like in 2004.. (50yo photo)
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What a home computer will look like in 2004.. (50yo photo)

"a man standing in front of a control panel"

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Comments for: What a home computer will look like in 2004.. (50yo photo)
kenny Report This Comment
Date: September 30, 2004 11:05AM

looks like my pc
PAH Report This Comment
Date: September 30, 2004 02:08PM

Yes, Fortran is SO easy to use.
Mint Report This Comment
Date: September 30, 2004 04:33PM

haha i love pics like this
whatever Report This Comment
Date: September 30, 2004 10:39PM

I've got a steering wheel just like that one...
Eric Report This Comment
Date: September 30, 2004 10:51PM

Is it me or does that photo look put together? I don't know why, it just doesn't look real to me.
alex Report This Comment
Date: October 01, 2004 01:29AM

hmm, lets see
1)its resolution is fifty years old
2)its in black and white
3)its a picture of a mock up of a fictional computer

in summary, no, i disagree.
kp Report This Comment
Date: October 02, 2004 07:21AM

Imagine playing Doom3 on that.

If you could go back in time, and show them a picture of my laptop, they'd probably burn you at the stake for witchcraft.
Jim Report This Comment
Date: October 03, 2004 02:56AM

Sorry to ruin the novelty of this photo, but the "computer" is the control panel for the engineering room of a naval ship. Looks like a nuclear vessel. The two steering wheels are throttle controls for the ahead and astern turbines. Center section is reactor control and right is electrical. Don't know why the television and keyboard/printer is there. Maybe because it is a training system.
whatever Report This Comment
Date: October 03, 2004 03:00AM

that's why i fucking hate the internet: the most you can ever say about any crazy-ass photo is, 'Yep, I guess it could be real.'
kp Report This Comment
Date: October 03, 2004 06:35AM

It probably is fake, it's still a cool image smiling
smiley
Mint Report This Comment
Date: October 04, 2004 05:03PM

i dont know if its a fake..i remember real pics like that. bout 10 years ago i saw a book called "1994" or some year in the 90s.. it was published some time in the 50s.. and it was all about what the world will be like by that year. had submarine cars and all kinds of funny stuff
bla Report This Comment
Date: October 12, 2004 06:40AM

the steering wheel is for GAMES stupid! Even in the 50s they knew that a panel of toggles would not cut it for playing downhill racer in the 21st century!
Jim Report This Comment
Date: October 13, 2004 03:22AM

Well, bla, go to this website and make your own decision. [home.att.net]
ORZ Report This Comment
Date: October 13, 2004 12:12PM

Great! I was enjoying this pic from day one. Until these darn copy paste experts ruined it for me. Now it's not a testament of human creativity out-doing human expectations, it's just another Photoshop-born loogie hocked into my eye. How depressing.
whatever Report This Comment
Date: October 16, 2004 05:38AM

is that J. Edgar Hoover?
TAT-2 Report This Comment
Date: November 02, 2004 05:36PM

WITH THAT WHEEL IT MUST BE EASY TO STEER THRU THE WEB
Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: November 29, 2004 06:17PM

The photo is a popular hoax spammed around the world no telling how many times. smiling
smiley
Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: November 29, 2004 06:18PM

[cas.uah.edu]
Hitlers_Dead Report This Comment
Date: June 24, 2005 04:50PM

I wanna bend him over, make him do a shit, then I'll smear it all over his back, Yeah!
ace Report This Comment
Date: September 05, 2005 03:37PM

hey its my dad
ace Report This Comment
Date: September 05, 2005 03:38PM

is that the new xbox
Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: January 07, 2006 12:12AM

I wish my today printer were half the size of my keyboard, though