Hunter Irving with the 1986 Macintosh Plus computer that he managed to connect to the internet. (Photo courtesy of Hunter ...

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and maybe even buy a whole new PC to cope with the more sophisticated code (which will reignite worries about a sudden glut of e-waste caused by people ditching their old computer gear en masse).

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