Apparently, this is a picture that’s been circulating through email forwards for a few years, but I’d never seen it until it was linked to as a throwaway citation in a Wired piece.
So, I know it’s the Seventies and all, but those are some scraggly looking people. Would you have thrown your cash in with their newfangled business idea to sell “virtual” “software” to help people run their “computers”? Or would you have said “Eff you, you longhaired nerds. I have better things to do with my hard-earned money than throw it away on your fancy typewritin’ machines!”?
Me, I probably wouldn’t have had any money to invest, so the question’s moot.
The picture’s real, though, at least according to the Museum of Hoaxes (and if you can’t trust the Museum of Hoaxes as to what’s real, then who can you trust?). They not it’s also featured in Bill Gates’ official Microsoft biography.
Grant Hamilton
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