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If a person from 1700 asked you your job, would they understand your answer, and if not, how would you explain it to them? (lemm.ee)

submitted 8 months ago by JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I can barely get my wife to understand virtualization/containerization and she’s very intelligent, let alone someone from the 18th century who couldn’t even comprehend what a computer was.

This likely has more to do with my shitty explaining ability than anything else. 😊

[–] bjornsno@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I manage computer systems.

What's a computer? It's a fancy calculator that can make moving paintings very quickly
What's a calculator? A fancy automatic loom that can do math like an abacus

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

At some point I’d believe their head would explode. I mean they wouldn’t even understand electricity. That wasn’t until about 50 years later.

[–] monk@lemmy.unboiled.info 1 points 8 months ago

Congrats, you're 12% there.