Embarrassing Predictions


	Embarrassing Predictions

skwirlinator

3-28-2007 3:18 PM

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3-30-2007 1:00 AM

taksmaster

"640K ought to be enough for anybody."Bill Gates, 1981

http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/1997/01/1484

3-30-2007 5:12 AM

Kyzand

Rather interesting, really.

I would love to travel back in time and visit these people, and see the look on their faces when I tell them how wrong they were

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