Explain computers and the internet to an educated person from 1800.

>trying to get us to do your homework assignment

fuck off

>>58605204
large libriary. done. next.

>>58605226
what possible class would this be homework for?

Can you please share with us your live forever™ technology?

>>58605226
Didn't we have this quality thread a while ago with 1880(?) instead?

Botnet

>>58605285
yes
I think 1800 is better because by the 1880s there were complete theories of computation

>>58605295
this t.b.q.h f.a.m.

>>58605204
You harness the power of God through the forces of lightning.

Near instantaneous communication system

>>58605204
It's a big piece of shit that will waste all of your time and leave you a broken shell of a human being.

A big fucking waste of time
I wish nuclear war happens soon
Or sun jizzes so hard and destroyes all technology

It's like a good semaphore.

>>58605204
It's a machine that can execute mathematical operations so fast it can give the impression it's intelligent if you don't know how it works.

Further developments of mechanical calculators such as the Pascaline, into which a configuration of operations can be imprinted, such that the traditional computus and many other tasks in a certain set of algorithmic reasoning can be dutifully performed by the machine, and the output shown on a changeable block printing of sorts. These machines can be organized as a battery via means of voltaic semaphores.

Furthermore, the common folk have taken into using them to present low-class drawings of disheartened frogs.

>>58606274
by stroking a mouse

Maths box that shows you pictures or Orientals when you ask it

Not what it does, but how it works, you retards!

>>58605204
Would I have to do it in french or latin?

It's an electronic adding automaton that can be modified into new configurations even while running. Once a new modification is specified it may be copied between automata. They can be hooked up like telegraphs in order to send this data between them. They are useful for solving analytical problems of both logic and math, but also enable sharing everything from photographs, news. These are displayed on a large photograph made from a large grid of tiny light emitting bulbs which can be updated many times a second to give the impression of motion.

>>58605204
have you gone to the library and seen the indexes at the door? have you thought "Mmm it would be nice that apart from the book in this library, I could also see the index for the libraries of other cities". Well the internet is an interconection of such indexes that you can access on a terminal. So if you want your book, you can also search it on other cities

>>58605204
Nah, I'll just get burned at the stake instead.

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>>58606498
>telegraph
>1800
???????????????????????

>>58606547
That word existed before the device you know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore_line

>>58606602
Well damn, don't I feel dumb now.

>>58606645
to be fair, I probably used it wrong. "Telegraphs" probably wasn't a commonly used word. I should have used the verb, not the noun. But in my defense, I read OP as "from the 1800s".

Computers
>Magic information box

Internet
>Wires across the planet connecting up said magic information boxes to each other

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>>58606439
>even including pepe
Now you have to introduce memes to the 1800s folk too

>>58606699
I think it was just a roundabout way of calling OP a dumb frogposter

>>58605204

wouldn't be that hard to understand an intel 8080 from the datasheet alone

Machine using electricity to store information and access information across the world.

Let's say you go back even further, maybe 150 years to 1650

How do you explain computers without being accused of witchcraft?

>>58605204
dumb frog poster

I'm from the future, the magnificent, far off year of 2002!

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>>58606332
You mean to tell me that you have succeeded in crafting artifical women?

>>58605263
Of porn