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I_Server_Whale
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aartlett wrote:Water Beds cannot be patented due to the accurate description he made in one of his novels has made it "Prior Art".
Wow! That's one achievement. I know exactly what you mean by "Prior Art".
aartlett wrote:Waldo, TANSTAAFL, Grok are words used today that we coined by him. He and Larry Niven were some of the earliest to use acronyms in place of common phrases (TANSTAAFL, TANJ (it)). Acronyms were around but they used them as though everybody knew them, much like today.
Had no idea about those acronyms until now. Interesting and thanks for sharing. :)

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