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World’s first web browser

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"Apple is about people who think 'outside the box', people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done."
- Steve Jobs Co-founder Apple

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Today's Events [13 Jun]

Died: Reg Smythe [1998]
Born: Lea Verou [1986]
Patent received for first programmable industrial robot [1961]
Born: Ralph McQuarrie [1929]

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Bezos wanted a company name that started with the letter "A". After much deliberation and pouring over the dictionary, he settled on "Amazon" because it conveyed a place that was "exotic and different". [more...]