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TheManInTheMac

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7. One could compile a very large book

Reply to onehandle (Original post)

Thu Jan 10, 2013, 11:29 AM

Jan 2013

of boneheaded predictions made by well-known people throughout history. Seems to me that Ballmer's predecessor predicted that the Internet would just be a fad.

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