Wow, what a fascinating concept and read. It's humbling to consider and marvel at what early technology pioneers like Claude Shannon envisioned and accomplished with a tiny, miniscule sliver of computational power compared to what we are surrounded by today.

I couldn't resist submitting it, especially considering it has not yet been discussed on HN*:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36385198

(*A different link covering the same subject was submitted 6 years ago but never caught on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14450232)