Open post Glen Akins @bikerglen@mastodon.social · 42mo ago Replying to @tubetime@mastodon.social fascinating to imagine an alternate reality where transistors never worked and people figured out how to miniaturize vacuum tubes, etching arrays of them on metal wafers and building computers. In fact, they could even have built the entire Internet using a series of tubes. @tubetime@mastodon.social MEMS before chips! And last I looked, the Internet was a series of tubes.