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Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 10:35:55 +0530

At 12:05 PM 10/4/28 -0400, Stephen D. Williams wrote:

>Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2028 12:05:01 -0400
>
>I actually thought of this kind of active chat at AOL (in 1996 I think), 
>bringing up ads based on what was being discussed and other features.  For 
>a while, the VP of dev. (now still CTO I think) was really hot on the idea 
>and they discussed patenting it.  Then they lost interest.  Probably a 
>good thing.

[note date: header]

Can I borrow your time machine, pretty please?

Udhay

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