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Happy 29th birthday, Microsoft Bob.
Bob was a short-lived attempt by Microsoft to make then-still-novel PCs approachable. It’s 29 this month, as XDA Developers reminds us today.
That article hauled Bob up from a three-decade-deep memory hole for me — my childhood best friend had it on his Packard Bell computer, and a very young version of me loved it. Until just now, I had assumed it was a digital playscape for children.
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