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From the motley fool:

I’m going to talk about long-term technology trends, which kind of sucks for me, as it will show just how old I am. Anyway, I’ll be referring to products and services that don’t exist any more. So bear with me youngsters. It’s All True.

In 1986, I told my dad he should buy some Microsoft stock. “Hey Dad,” I said. “You should buy some Microsoft.” He didn’t buy any, probably because I was more or less clueless about why he should buy Microsoft. “Because they make the software that runs computers.” I was kinda like that guy in The Graduate who told Dustin Hoffman, “Plastics.” That was me, the one word guy. And I was right! That’s the crazy thing.

Flash forward nine years. It’s 1995, I’m in law school, working on my personal computer. No, ha ha, just kidding. I was still using a typewriter in 1995. I know, I know.

Anyway, 1995, I had no computer. And I was watching the playoffs on TV and this little promo appears about how I could get more information on the world wide web. The information superhighway.

I had no idea what they were talking about. And I had this intuition that I was missing out on something. Plus, it was getting harder and harder to buy ink cartridges for my typewriter. So anyway, kicking and screaming and without any Microsoft stock to my daddy’s name, I was dragged into the internet age. Or information age, whatever.

So I had a decision to make. PC, or Apple? This actually was a very easy decision to make. Why it was an easy decision, I’ll need to disrupt the space-time continuum again and rewind to 1982. Or maybe it was 1983, it’s kinda foggy. Anyway…

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