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It’s been 20 years since the first website went online. It’s a bit underwhelming by today’s standards, with nary an animated GIF in sight. But without that first page we probably wouldn’t have Amazon, Facebook, Google, Instagram, Pandora, or any number of other companies that have come to be such a big part of our lives in the past two decades.

Or maybe they all would have just hosted really popular FTP sites.

In other news, now that folks are starting to pick up their Google Glass Explorer Edition kits, more information, opinion, and prognostication is emerging about the next 20 years of computing.

Google Glass in the shower

Here’s a roundup of some of the day’s top stories.

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