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The place where grandparents can get their tech cred back

The place where grandparents can get their tech cred back

For me, it was the cybercafe room containing old beige towers running Doom on big hulking monitors, a pair of 2000s-era Windows machines with MSN Messenger chats going, and a Commodore Amiga hooked up to a recreation of an early Australian internet service. But nearby there’s also a carefully restored electromechanical talking clock featuring the original voice recordings of Gordon …

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The place where grandparents can get their tech cred back

The place where grandparents can get their tech cred back

For me, it was the cybercafe room containing old beige towers running Doom on big hulking monitors, a pair of 2000s-era Windows machines with MSN Messenger chats going, and a Commodore Amiga hooked up to a recreation of an early Australian internet service. But nearby there’s also a carefully restored electromechanical talking clock featuring the original voice recordings of Gordon …

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