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Tweetmaster General

PostmasterGeneral (Marvin Travis Runyon): Email is just a fad
Submitted by Sean Tucker
Twitter Historian on January 29th 2010 in 1990s
Just Another Day at the Office
Bill Lumbergh: @petergibbons What’s happening? Yeah… we’re putting new cover sheets on all the #TPSreports. Did my DM get lost in your tweetstream?
Submitted by Brett Abel — Thanks Brett!
[from the 1999 film Office Space]
Twitter Historian on September 18th 2009 in 1990s, Entertainment
Al Gore One-Ups Bill Gates on Twitter
Earlier today, we heard Bill Gates’ claim about Twitter, and now Al Gore drops this inconvenient truth bomb on us……

Al Gore: I invented Twitter.
[He also invented the Internet.]
Twitter Historian on July 28th 2009 in 1990s
Bill Gates Makes a Bold Twediction

Bill Gates: No one will ever have a need for Twitter.
From Wikiquote: Misattributed to Bill Gates
“640K ought to be enough for anybody.”
Often attributed to Gates in 1981. Gates considered the IBM PC’s 640kB program memory a significant breakthrough over 8-bit systems that were typically limited to 64kB, but he has denied making this remark:
“I’ve said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time … I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There’s never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again.”
[We're so glad to be repeating it for all to hear!]
Twitter Historian on July 28th 2009 in 1990s


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