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1954 Home Computer Hoax
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The claim
Caption accompanying a widely circulated image claims that the picture depicts how scientists in 1954 imagined a home computer set-up would look in 2004.
Subject: 1954 computer prediction
What the fact-checkers found
The claims in the caption are false. The picture does not depict a 1954 prediction of how a home computer might look in 2004. In fact, the picture was an entry in a Fark.com Photoshop contest that used a Smithsonian exhibit photograph depicting a full-scale mock-up of a typical nuclear-powered submarine’s maneuvering room as a source image.
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