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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Oct-2023 17:57:25 JST Aral Balkan

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   • Imogen

   @HopelessDemigod Good thing they didn’t patent it and aren’t billionaires now because the last thing the world needs is another damn patent and another bloody billionaire.

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     Imogen (hopelessdemigod@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Oct-2023 17:57:28 JST Imogen

     #UNIX #BBS #Coconet #RetroComputing

     I emailed Brian this morning and this is what he stated.

     "Coconut Computing was sold in 1995. The company, and the COCONET HOST, CocoTalk, CocoMedia, and all the other software products are long gone, alas. It’s too bad because it would prove, among many other things, that we invented Emoji more than 11 years before the Japanese company did. If we’d only patented our inventions, we’d be billionaires now. :-)"

     - Brian