It's been exciting to see how CPU's (and GPU) has become more powerful over the years. Also how broadband has changed the way we can participate and be online 24/7.
When I started, single core CPU's were the only choice on desktop machines.
ISDN connection to the internet forced us to use SETI queue for buffering workunits.
The world is an excess of more and more idle CPU power
Lets use it to do some real work instead.
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