Meet The Man Who Designed a Tablet Computer 15 Years Before the iPad

Doofus writes "The Washington Post has a profile of Roger Fidler, who 'invented' the tablet computer in the 1990s, while working as a visionary for newspaper firm Knight-Ridder. He is now embroiled in the Apple/Samsung legal war, as an expert witness. Fidler admits that other prior art influenced him, such as the tablets being used as computing devices in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Prior prior art."

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[oakgrove]

Kowalski, the fact that you spend so much time "proving" you're not hairy feet is what is so amazing. Listen, Alexander, I know who you are and what you are. You are the author of probably 50 AC posts in the last couple of days howing what a crazed lunatic you are. You are the person that manipulates this sites posting limits and then brags about it like you are some kind of leet haxor when you are just recycling proxies. Those limits are there for a reason to keep fucks like you from ruining the message board. But you are a bonafide sociopath Alexander and so the rules don't apply to you. You are a sad pathetic little man who lives on his computer while people like me have normal lives in the real world and laugh at little fucks like you. Now reply with 3 different AC posts pretending to be 4 different people so I can laugh and mock you some more.