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Twitter, telegram, email: famous first lines

March 22, 2011

Absolutely lovely read on the famous first lines of technology.

The bbc.co.uk digs this up. Twitter launched five years ago with the simple message "just setting up my twttr". In the same way, many technological breakthroughs that ultimately shaped the world began life, not with a fanfare of trumpets, but with a few humble words. "Alright, so here we are in front of the elephants."

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