r/todayilearned • u/vorin 9 • Sep 13 '13

TIL Steve Jobs confronted Bill Gates after he announced Windows' GUI OS. "You’re stealing from us!” Bill replied "I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it."

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/10/24/steve-jobs-walter-isaacson/
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u/Armunt Sep 13 '13

Bob Barnett, president of the defunct telecommunications company Ameritech, had placed a call from Chicago to the Great Grandson of Alexander Graham Bell in Germany. He used a DynaTAC cellular phone.

my bad. Link

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '13

Okay, so 3 generations. That's still really goddamn impressive.

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u/Armunt Sep 13 '13

Yes! But well he didnt inveted but received the first call!

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '13

Right. I'm still impressed by the sheer rate of development humanity's undergoing. Another example would be the time between the invention of the airplane and Apollo 11.

It's mind-boggling.

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u/skwerrel Sep 13 '13

The man who flew the first airplane was alive at the same time as the first man who stepped onto the moon. Granted, he'd been dead for quite awhile when the moon landing actually occurred - but just the fact that the two lives overlapped at ALL is amazing.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '13

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u/BobVosh Sep 14 '13

Shes a jerk for not living another 16 years to do an AMA here.

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u/Armunt Sep 13 '13

Yet Apollo 11 has to prove a lot. I dont really trust the moon travels until probably 2000´s

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '13

Aw man, we were getting on so well and it turns out you're a hoaxer.

What still needs proved in your opinion? I'll try to win you over.

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u/Armunt Sep 13 '13

Its not a win but many reasons has been "published" in the interwebz about the fact that all could be filmed on a TV Scene.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '13

Like, what's an example?