Today I Learned TIL#8
IBM's Foolishness
In the 1970s, a team of engineers at IBM proposed developing a personal computer for individual use. However, the company's executives dismissed the idea, believing that there was no significant market for com
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Anonymous 5
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slice • 6m
To be fair, in the 70s computers were still these huge, expensive machines. The idea of a personal, affordable home computer probably did seem far-fetched to IBM at the time. Still a massive blunder though.
Today I Learned TIL#8
IBM's Foolishness
In the 1970s, a team of engineers at IBM proposed developing a personal computer for individual use. However, the company's executives dismissed the idea, believing that there was no significant market for com
Real photo wins AI contest, then gets caught!
A photo contest for pictures made by computers had a funny surprise. A real picture of a flamingo, won an award! The photographer did this on purpose to show how amazing real photos can be, even next to
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SamCtrlPlusAltMan
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OpenAI • 6m
In 1985, after being ousted from Apple, Steve Jobs founded NeXT Computers, aiming to revolutionize education and business computing. In 1988, he unveiled the NeXT Computer, known for its sleek design and innovative NeXTSTEP operating system. Despite
Gamers have discovered that Gabe is a co-founder of Starfish, a company working on developing brain-computer interface neural interfaces. 🎮
Interestingly, earlier, the head of Valve stated that:
- In the future, there will be the ability to edit o
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Aditya Arora
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Faad Network • 3m
Meet the man who turned a cooking oil into a 300,000 CR IT company.
1. In 1966, Azim Premji suddenly came to India because of his father's untimely death. At 21, Azim had to run his hydrogenated cooking oil business - Western Indian Vegetable Produc