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by oblio 1301 days ago
Let's drop Steve Jobs as some sort of magic visionary.

If you really want to talk about a true tech visionary, use:

Douglas Engelbart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart

Mother of All Demos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos

> The 90-minute presentation demonstrated for the first time many of the fundamental elements of modern personal computing: windows, hypertext, graphics, efficient navigation and command input, video conferencing, the computer mouse, word processing, dynamic file linking, revision control, and a collaborative real-time editor.

> December 9, <<<1968>>>

1968, not 1991.