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And it was all very rough, you know there was mostly text
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General Magic

And it was all very rough,you know there was mostly text

And it was all very rough,
you know there was mostly text

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And it was all very rough, you know there was mostly text.
Duration
5 seconds
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26
Timestamp in Movie
00:48:39
Uploaded
Jun 18, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Spellbound Productions II

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The ideas that dominate the tech industry and our day to day lives were born at a secretive Silicon Valley start-up named 'General Magic', which spun out of Apple in 1990 to create the first handheld personal communicator (or "smartp
Uh, having graphics was leading edge and we were working on this rich multimedia system - General Magic 00:16
Uh, having graphics was leading edge and we were working on ...
This other force had appeared and we weren't looking at it, you know. - General Magic 00:04
This other force had appeared and we weren't looking at...
We were in bed with AT&T with our private cloud. - General Magic 00:04
We were in bed with AT&T with our private cloud.
The whole point about having a closed network is that people had to pay to use it, - General Magic 00:08
The whole point about having a closed network is that people...
The problem was pivoting toward the World Wide Web, that would have meant cannibalizing - General Magic 00:13
The problem was pivoting toward the World Wide Web, that wou...
I have to invest the time, the time to keep banging on the web - General Magic 00:12
I have to invest the time, the time to keep banging on the w...
But even though it was all here, right in front of us, - General Magic 00:08
But even though it was all here, right in front of us,
One of our developers, Pierre Omidyar, very quiet, soft spoken guy. - General Magic 00:06
One of our developers, Pierre Omidyar, very quiet, soft spok...
He had a Webpage, and down at the bottom it had a click through called Auction Web. - General Magic 00:05
He had a Webpage, and down at the bottom it had a click thro...
Every once in a while I would pass his desk - General Magic 00:18
Every once in a while I would pass his desk
You know, is it something you think is a good idea? I'd like to turn it into a-- - General Magic 00:10
You know, is it something you think is a good idea? I'd...
Lots of luck. We're not interested, have fun." - General Magic 00:04
Lots of luck. We're not interested, have fun."
He tried to get lots of people to join and nobody would join - General Magic 00:14
He tried to get lots of people to join and nobody would join
He had this pony tail down to his waist. He didn't look like the kind of guy - General Magic 00:12
He had this pony tail down to his waist. He didn't look...
We had him in our midst, and we had no idea. - General Magic 00:04
We had him in our midst, and we had no idea.
He was, he was a tech support engineer and a very quiet guy. We had no idea. - General Magic 00:06
He was, he was a tech support engineer and a very quiet guy....
Meanwhile we are hearing about, you know, the partners - General Magic 00:07
Meanwhile we are hearing about, you know, the partners
Any deferral of schedule is very politically charged, - General Magic 00:08
Any deferral of schedule is very politically charged,
Sony was just, you know, insistent about that, like, "Where is it? Where is it?" - General Magic 00:14
Sony was just, you know, insistent about that, like, "W...
Uh, we're still evaluating that, to see whether we can meet that date. - General Magic 00:05
Uh, we're still evaluating that, to see whether we can ...