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• chaostheory 19y ago
  Ebay: a place to sell PEZ dispensers that used to crash every second Internet: a place that used to only be mainly useful for looking at free pr0n Post it notes: its adhessive was a "failed" project. Its value was only found after an employee started using it on paper to use as temporary bookmarks for gospel music "From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: What would you like to see most in minix? Summary: small poll for my new operating system Message-ID: <1991Aug25.205708.9541@klaava.Helsinki.FI> Date: 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT Organization: University of Helsinki Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones...."
  • mattmaroon 19y ago
    eBay was not started to sell Pez dispensers. That's a marketing myth they perpetuated which has since been recanted. A brief Wikipedia search shows that it was story crafted by a brilliant P.R. agent a couple years after they'd launched.
    • chaostheory 19y ago
      ok, then i guess you could replace PEZ dispenser with "broken laser pointer" or any other misc item, and the rest is still valid. it was still a dinky site in the beginning that crashed often
• awt 19y ago
  The wheel.