https://wiki.liujiacai.net/book/Recent content in 读书笔记 on 家财的个人 wikiHugozh-cnSun, 20 Sep 2026 06:13:57 +0000https://wiki.liujiacai.net/book/how-internet-happened/Sun, 20 Sep 2026 06:13:57 +0000https://wiki.liujiacai.net/book/how-internet-happened/<p><strong>作者</strong>: Brian McCullough <strong>笔记数</strong>: 83</p> <hr> <h2 id="intro">Intro</h2> <p>This quote is probably apocryphal, but it does capture the early thinking when computers first began to serve man. They were to be rare, expensive oracles; and like the oracles of ancient times, they would be useful only in rare, exceptional cases.</p> <p>Computers were expensive in the beginning. They were complicated and difficult and they were as big as a room (that is not hyperbolic phrasing; generally considered the first modern computer, the ENIAC occupied about 1,800 square feet and weighed almost 50 tons). The received wisdom of their rarefied utility affected their design; computers were not conceived to be user-friendly because it was never assumed a nonexpert user would interact with one.</p>