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 1945 d.C.

The Colossus was one of the first programmable electronic computers in the history of computing. Built and put into operation in the United Kingdom during the Second World War, it was able to decipher the codes developed by the Lorenz SZ 40/42 cipher used by the Nazis to protect the correspondence between Adolf Hitler and his chiefs of staff, as well as the Japanese Purple and Red communications, based on Enigma technology. So, if I were you I wouldn't be so sure of myself about end to end... peer-to-peer... blockchain..... and blah blah blah... we invented money and we assembled the Internet, so seriously, give us back the gold as a resource for exchange and give us back the water as an essential nourishment, otherwise we are left with a 455 billion blah blah blah that NATO will deprive us of, a child explained it to me, i think he has talent as a film director, innate or I.A.