WWW. "I went back home before midnight. I couldn't stand being in the same room as that box. I was there to be with the children and grandchildren, not some damn machine. I don't think anyone noticed I was missing."--Excerpt, dated December 31, 1956, from a diary purchased at a Wisconsin flea market in 1993

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