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		whoopdedo on Dec 19, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How AltaVista, the first good search engine, fell ... Google also came about around the same time as the original candy-colored iMac. It was part of the general rebellion against "boring" technology.

asdff on Dec 19, 2020 [–]

I really was boring when the floor, the desk, the cubicle, the walls, and the computer were all the same shade of aging beige. The sterile asylum days of technology industrial design.

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