BACK·IN·TIME · LEDGER NODE 7

What If I Bought

Pick a decade. Watch the wormhole take you to today's value. Five terminals, one per era, from the 1965 IBM mainframe to 2010 Hack//OS Matrix.

MAINFRAME · JOB QUEUE
1965.
$1,000 of Berkshire Hathaway
Buffett takes the wheel of a struggling textile mill.
→ $38.50M (38.5K×)
MISSION CONTROL · TELEX
1972.
$1,000 of Walmart
Sam Walton lists. Most ignore him.
→ $11.20M (11.2K×)
PC-DOS · CGA
1980.
$1,000 of Apple
Macintosh four years away. Steve, twenty-five.
→ $2.14M (2.1K×)
POSIX · BASH 1.0
1997.
$1,000 of Amazon
A bookstore on the internet. People laughed.
→ $2.41M (2.4K×)
HACK//OS · MATRIX
2010.
$100 of Bitcoin
Mt. Gox opens in July. A nickel a coin.
→ $160.00M (1.60M×)