The [first computer] used by the IRS was a simple but effective device
that employed a bank of electrically charged nails and a series of cardboard cards
with various patterns of holes punched in them; when the nails were pressed down
onto a card, they passed through the holes and formed a complete electrical
circuit by piercing the naked bodies of taxpayers who had been summoned for audits. —
Dave Barry in Cyberspace
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