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Any ideas what the final size on disk would be after downloading?

The price of Bitcoin would rise precipitously as traders tried to exit tether any way possible, as would all other cryptos.

Two tips:

- don't justify text, it doesn't look good and it makes text harder to (https://designforhackers.com/blog/justify-text-html-css/)

- 'On this page' section is too long. And once I scroll down I don't see it anymore so I can't use it for navigation. Look at https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.0/getting-started/introducti... or https://tailwindcss.com/docs/installation to see how useful can it be.


It's so strange how unevenly the future was distributed back then. You could get a Quadra 900 or a color NeXTstation. The SE/30 was two years old. You could run Mathematica. Matlab 3.5 was available on DOS and the Mac, and Matlab 4 was a year away. AutoCAD was pretty well established on PCs and Macs for 2D CAD. LabView was five years old. Microsoft Word for the Mac was six years old.

Gopher and the rudimentary gopher-with-pictures web already existed. Mosaic was two years away.

If you were a hobbyist, you might buy an Amiga 3000 instead of a mid-tier Mac or PC- the Amiga 4000 was a year away.

On the PC, Wolfenstein 3D was year away. DOOM was two years away.

And yet well into the nineties, PC nerds were amazed to be able to spin up multiple Wordperfect 5 windows, and they may as well have been at the vanguard as far as most people were concerned! Quickbasic! Lotus 1-2-3!


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