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I would like to open this published story with a quote from the man who envisioned how it would play out:
“It’s 1958,” he began. “IBM passes up the chance to buy a young, fledgling company that has just invented a new technology called xerography⁴³. Two years later, Xerox is born, and IBM has been kicking itself ever since.”¹
Steve Jobs knew and lived the future almost as well as he retold the past. I started with a quote from Jobs in a first-person account on David Burnell’s blog entry post — Close Encounters with Steve Jobs (Part 11). It’s a peculiar story but it opened my eyes because it filled in a lot of things I already partially understood. This time it struck me because it was mixed with quotes I had never read by Jobs himself. I trusted the source too because I was able to pull it from my usual wikis. Perhaps why it doesn’t forward circulate is because the blog itself could be from the late part of Jobs’ tenure at Apple, or conflict with when we thought he left Apple. Maybe, Jobs never left Apple and this entry is up for debate on the newswires. Regardless, the language does have a block in place with web interoperability and that has to do with the page’s extension — making me question if these types of sites I see all over are extended from the older…
