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by mataug 1686 days ago
So if I somehow time travelled to ~1800 there's no way I'm making my own modern computer ?!

Jokes aside, its fascinating to see how complex computers are under the many layers of abstraction that we've built on top of them.

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You can start with figuring out how to make good insulated wire and then try to invent the generator and the transformer.