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Harry McCracken@harrymccracken@mastodon.social
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I’m looking up stuff in 1970s issues of Creative Computing, and getting distracted by Monte Wolverton’s funny and prescient cartoons.

Vintage comic panel titled "Computer Myths Explained" showing scientists reacting in horror to a monstrous alien emerging from a computer.
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Vintage comic "Computer Myths Explained" showing a chaotic robot computer doing all household chores simultaneously, pen-and-ink style.
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Black and white comic illustration titled "Computer Myths Explained: Computerized Unemployment" by Monte Wolverton showing humans reduced to blobs of protoplasm in capsules connected to a giant computer.
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1978 cartoon: bored man at computer displaying "YAWN," surrounded by unwashed dishes and laundry. Text debunks home computer myths.
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⁨Jul⁩ ⁨27⁩, ⁨2026⁩, ⁨03:51⁩en
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