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One weekend in 1995, Steve Perlman tested his theory that the Web could look as good on a TV screen as it did on a computer monitor. In 3 days of round-the- clock effort, he built a thin client for surfing the Web, using a television as a display. He invited his friend Bruce Leak over to see what he’d built, and they knew right away it was a big enough idea for a startup.
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(2007). Steve Perlman. In: Founders at Work. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0327-8_13
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