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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Remember when Billiam Gates said nobody would ever need more than 640kb of RAM?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 52 minutes ago (1 children)

I mean, that was back when if you wanted a home computer, you were building it yourself from parts from Radio Shack. Not exactly the same thing. I'm not certain that even Apple had the Apple 1 out at that point. I know they hadn't made the Mac 128k, and weren't going to for several years.

I haven't ever met anyone that thought Bill Gates was prescient, just a lucky businessman.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 44 minutes ago

The joke being that he didn't actually say it, same as Microsoft never stating 10 being the last version of Windows ever

[–] [email protected] 1 points 56 minutes ago (1 children)

What we never needed was his billionaire ass.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 38 minutes ago

Thank goodness the clouds parted and his holy billionaire visage emerged with the gift of [*angelic chorus] vaccines otherwise we would all be dead now (and he wouldn't have made a 20 to 1 return on investment). Thank god for billionaires and their unquestionable wisdom.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 hours ago

Yup, then Javascript was invented