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Father Of Invention (6/15/00)
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Hey, everybody-- make sure you head over to Woz.org and congratulate "The Other Steve" on his recent honor. According to an Associated Press story, the Woz was just inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. For his invention of the Apple II personal computer, Woz gets a nifty medallion, an induction ceremony for him and his six co-inductees this September, and the honor of being one of the only 158 inventors ever to have won the award. Pretty sweet.
Woz was, of course, the other co-founder of Apple Computer; he was the brains on the technical end, whereas Steve Jobs was the "suit" (despite pretty much never actually having worn one). Jobs is obviously still a business go-getter, but Woz is more the low-key quiet type-- he raises his kids, teaches school, and runs the WozCam. What with Jobs getting so much media attention over the past several years, it's nice to see Apple's other founder capture a little sliver of the spotlight. Drop by and check out his responses to other people's congrats, and contribute your own. Without him, there'd have been no Apple, and without Apple, we'd all be using DOS or something.
But we're not just bringing this up because it's a nice honor for Woz; we'd be remiss if we failed to leverage this award as further fuel for the classic rumor of the Disney buyout of Apple that's going to happen "real soon now." For you see, one of Woz's co-inductees this year is none other than Walt Disney himself, who is being honored for his invention of a "special camera for filming animation." Walt and Woz both being inducted at the same time; coincidence? Yeah, right. If you believe that, you're probably one of those incurable skeptics who thinks Walt's head isn't cryogenically frozen beneath Disneyland, ready to be thawed out as soon as the Apple takeover's complete. Get ready for that Apple logo to sprout big round mouse ears, because the signs are crystal clear, baby.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 6/15/00 episode: June 15, 2000: Apple prepares next month's iMac speed bump even as lab gnomes work on that system's next-generation Lego-like architecture. Meanwhile, the Microsoft-Bungie buyout rumors heat up and point to some kind of announcement this Monday, and Woz gets inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame...
Other scenes from that episode: 2359: Monkey, Monkey-- Match (6/15/00) If anyone was concerned that the Mac rumors scene might dry up and blow away because of Adobe's lawsuit against AppleInsider, it appears you can put your mind at ease. Despite the fact that Adobe's suit alleges "tens of millions of dollars in irreparable damages" caused by AppleInsider's unauthorized sneak preview of future versions of Photoshop and ImageReady, the rumors over there keep flying fast and fierce... 2360: D-Day Approaches (6/15/00) Funny how, in a world filled with mortgage payments, corporate downsizing, car repairs, and the ever-mounting environmental problem caused by mountains of AOL disks, it would be a rumor about a game company that finally gave us a bleeding ulcer...
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