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a microSD card would probably impress some guys at IBM, but take an iPhone (and the internet) and you'll blow everyone's mind. Just google maps alone in the palm of your hand is amazing. iPhone (or any hand held computer) plus wikipedia, google maps and of course tumblr for cats and people in the 50's would likely either kill you or start a cult for you. (or in the case of Jesus, both)

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Unfortunately an iPhone taken back to the 1950s is going to be a local-apps-only affair.

Even showing off the hardware would be hard.

"Lemme show you the awesome pictures I can take with this iPhone, right plug this cable into your computer's USB por.......oh"

'take the internet'? That's quite a lot of stuff you're taking with you, from layer 1 all the way up. You couldn't 'take the internet' even with a giant fleet of trucks.

How about a series of pipes? Will that work?

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