“Before 2019” seems like a safe bet for pre-LLM years… but let’s see.

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    Let’s see… The English army made blow up tanks to fake their power. The French made a second Paris to confuse pilots. The military were very upset when the first spam email was sent. This one is debated but the story is ibm choose ms-dos as their os because the owner of their first choice was out flying his plane when they went to make the deal so they went with their second choice bill gates. Apple was failing, they fired Steve jobs, Steve then made a different company, couple years later Steve was rehired by Apple and made the initial ipod.

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      ibm choose ms-dos as their os because the owner of their first choice was out flying his plane when they went to make the deal so they went with their second choice bill gates

      And Gates set up the meeting with the first guy, and as likely as not misrepresented its importance.