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Oh, I miss those custom interview header graphics…

Christmas gang rape comes up earlier every year.

Armus, sweet jebus why do I remember that.

♫ Undercover tiger, furry fantasy… ♫

I could not not read that in the voice of the DJ 3000.

Segway or gtfo

Yeah, it sucks to see American companies making money!

The common ones are much more watery.

And that robot will be named… Chief Knock-a Homer.

Dude looks like Lansbury! ♬

You get all my likes for this thread.

* we’ll meet again, don’t know where, don’t know when… *

ALL JOKES ARE FAPPING JOKES

Really, it’s been here for years.

They were losing money, sure, and any press mention of Apple was legally obligated to prefix it with “beleaguered,” but I don’t remember anyone there talking about outright bankruptcy. The Bill Gates thing came out of left field.

You’re conflating Foxconn (electronics manufacturer for Acer, Amazon, Apple, Asus, ASRock, Intel, Cisco, HP, Dell, Nintendo, Nokia, Microsoft, MSI, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, and Vizio, amongst others) with Steve Jobs. That’s ok, it’s a common hyperbolic mistake.

The Pontiac Aztek!

Apple had 1.2 billion in cash. If they were in imminent danger of going under, the 150 million stock purchase wouldn’t have kept the lights on for much longer. The Mac Office and IE announcements were a bigger deal, but still largely symbolic. For MS to drop Mac support in the fall of 97 would have handed the DOJ a

FUCK CP/M. OS/2!

I like the @Juan_Carlo:disqus gimmick account, but the schtick would be more clear if it was named “Reposted 1993 Usenet Comments”.