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		Spooky23 on Aug 16, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Discord supercharges network disks for extreme... Why do you think these shell tools exist in the first place? These tools were processing and generating phone bills in the 1980s with computers with less computing power than your watch.

DonHopkins on Aug 18, 2022 [–]

Not only processing and generating, but also running up phone bills, like uucp!

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