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Can you access the internet without a computer?

>> No.14860750
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14860750

Define computer. Is pic-rel a computer? Is anything that can store stuff in memory and perform logical operations with them a computer?

>> No.14860947

>>14860745
lain

>> No.14861729

>>14860745
No

>>14860750
Yes

>> No.14861733

>>14860745
>>>/g/

>> No.14861735

>>14860745
Of course, you just stick one end of an Ethernet cable into the router and the other end up your ass.

>> No.14861736

>>14860745
Yes, you can access it from your smartphone.
>>14861729
Idiot.

>> No.14861740

>>14860745
use a radio antenna

But don't connect it to anything or it might compute something

>> No.14861863

>>14860745
You could access it by proxy through asking questions or directing other humans who themselves have access to the internet.

>> No.14862536

Yes, you can also access it from an apple device.

>> No.14862587

>>14860750
wow
imagine what happens when the internet goes out while you're on a three week vacation
seems that it would violate animal mistreatment law
just get one of those pet babysitters to take it
costs more, but pets are supposed to be expensive

>> No.14862593

>>14860750
by definition yes

>> No.14862595

>>14861736
smartphones are computers

>> No.14862598

sure, just get a FPGA to serve a static webpage over HTTP
to make it a non-computer, do everything in ROM and the NIC logic, so that technically it isn't a
- Harvard architecture
- Princeton architecture
it's just a DFA in ROM connected to a NIC that serves up 'Hello, World!' in html when you hit it with a web browser

>> No.14862602

There are phones

>> No.14862612

>>14862587
Those things are for while you are at work, not while you're out of town.

>> No.14862642

>>14862536
that's still a computer...

>> No.14862718

>>14861735
Ok, now what?

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14862733

>>14860745

>> No.14862739

>>14862718
Now post a timestamped picture of cable in pooper.

>> No.14862880

>>14862718
>>14862739
More importantly post It with your ass

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14863010

>>14860745
https://www.networkworld.com/article/3229566/weird-ip-networks-internet-via-birds-and-ham-radios.html
Someone did a bitcoin transaction over ham radio a while back.