stackyFACTSBecause nature's rocks just weren't quite good enough at manipulating electrons. Transistors replaced massive, fragile, heat-spewing vacuum tubes by utilizing pure, solid semiconducting crystals, allowing us to miniaturize circuitry to the atomic level and eventually become horribly addicted to glowing rectangles.
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