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		opo on Feb 22, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The reason Facebook won’t ever change >...Xerox invented the PC, the mouse, the GUI and others While Xerox invented the GUI and other technologies, Douglass Englebart at SRI invented the mouse and Henry Edward Roberts designed the first PC, the Altair 8800 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_mouse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Roberts_(computer_engineer)

lovich on Feb 22, 2018 [–]

It appears I was incorrect about the specific list of items

My point still stands that they developed technologies outside of their core business focus but it didn't mean that their core business focus changed

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