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Steve Jobs, Jeff Raskin, and some other Apple bigwigs gained entry into the super - secret Xerox PARC facility. Upon seeing their early work with the GUI (Graphical User Interface - using a mouse to point to things on the screen, thereby controlling the computer graphically rather than via typed commands), the Apple guys realized this was the future of personal computing.
As detailed in iCon, which is a fun book about Steve Jobs, the Xerox people were the nerds who created the technology, but didn't have the creative minds to see the next step - how the technology they created would revolutionize the personal computer, and thereby the world.
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