Super, I'm quite sure they didn't have computers in the 1700's! But they did have computers in as far back as the 70's. They didn't do much back then so they weren't very popular until after the Internet came about 15-20 years ago. And I didn't research this, my brain has a lot of useless information that might get used once or twice.
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