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xkcd #3320: House Majority (imgs.xkcd.com)
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xkcd #3320: House Majority

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For the first time in history, it will be possible for a Democratic Senator from Kansas to see a programmable automatic digital computer.

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For the first time in history, it will be possible for a Democratic Senator from Kansas to see a programmable automatic digital computer.
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[–] 69 points 2 days ago (6 children)

What's the joke?

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  • [–] 153 points 2 days ago (5 children)

    The last majority like this was before websites.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    not quite. Democrats had a 267 majority between 1990-1992. Websites existed in 1992.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 days ago

    That election was in 1990. Maybe there were some usenet with news about the elections but not websites. The first website that may have had covered something like that was Bloomberg in 1993

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