Apathy Curve: Google60

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Monday, December 17, 2012

Google60

Google60 is a very cleverly executed website which re-routes Google through an emulator of a 1960s-era punch card-fueled, tape drive-accessing, slow-as-molasses computer. I only had limited interaction with punch card computing. Our elementary school set us up with once-a-week sessions to familiarize us with computers, (which was quite forward-thinking for the time... but then Pasadena Independent School District was one of the top districts in the nation at that time). Anyhow, it seemed absolutely miraculous back then, like playing at being Mr Spock on the bridge of the Enterprise. I had forgotten, though, how painfully slow that method of computing could be.

Piclick to conduct your own antiquated search.

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