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@p @Humpleupagus @ins0mniak To put it in perspective, if you the one of the 5,000 families in your neighborhood who had a computer, that 386 cost you 6 months’ salary in 1994. You’d have bought it in Zhongguancun, which was all dirt roads way outside the city.

By 2005, that same area was inside the city, looked as developed as Akihabara, and prices fell to where most university students could get both a laptop and a phone.

It even caught people in the business by surprise.