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Clubber
on Dec 28, 2016
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Systems Past: software innovations we actually use...
Something just occurred to me; encryption predates software so it's not a software innovation in and of itself.
romaniv
on Dec 28, 2016
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Similarly, compression can be seen as a logical product of Information Theory. But I'm not sure it would go anywhere beyond theory without computers.
tyingq
on Dec 28, 2016
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Shorthand / Stenography seem like compression without computers.
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