As I was reading it, I wondered if perhaps I was somehow cosmically thrust into some worm-hole time-warp back to 1955.

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So now we want to time warp back 30 years to a system where all our data resides on a giant lump of iron in some distant data center?

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Dip into the Millaa Millaa Falls, spot turtles in Lake Eacham and travel back to 1910 in the time-warp village of Yungaburra - the perfect preparation for rejoining the boisterous, bustling 21st century in Cairns.

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