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On this day, in the 1970s, an evil was born…

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Yes, it’s David Blaine’s birthday.

Meantime, in 1975, it’s also the day that Microsoft - or Micro-Soft as it was way back when* - was created. Bill Gates, 19, and Paul Allen, 22 changed the world as we would come to know it.

Microsoft, 1983

Yes, everything that pretty much has ever happened, pro and con, in computers in the modern age can be traced back to this fateful day.

It’s not all bad.

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