@kenshirriff .. this is going to confuse A LOT alien archaeologist species that will come in some millennia to a desert earth and will find "ancient remains" of "human tech" .. and so those legends/rumours/theories will be born ... "Maybe the humans had a knowledge we don't have to create chips using organic materials ?" 😅

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I went looking for an old Nat.Geog. article that showed Navaho women actually making circuit boards for Fairchild Semiconductor, because they could remember the complex patterns.
But I think that was the 1970s article "The Computer", and what I still have is the 1982 issue on "The Chip", and it contributes this semi-relevant picture.
"Semi", because that's NOT a rug, but a model; it's how they had to review chip designs before you could do CAD zoom-ins.

@kenshirriff I came across this blog post by chance, rapidly emailed it to a bunch of people, and then saw you had a mastodon account so I want to thank you for causing me to email my mother and friends about an interesting thing.

@kenshirriff thank you for sharing this!

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this is so cool. I posted it separately before seeing your posting here. I love reading your articles and following your projects.