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Launch a file-sharing or download-based enterprise
that would offer its content for free but would charge
users for memory cards or additional hard drives. The
additional memory would be proprietary and encrypted
such that the downloaded files could only be stored and
accessed from the company’s hardware.
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14 August 2001
Launch a website to trace the origins of popular jokes
and urban myths. Jokes would be published on the site Editor’s note:
for users to add the date at which they think they firstSomeone, somewhere
heard them and a note disclosing the source from which and at sometime
they were heard. A reverse email-chain system could must have written or
also be developed to track back a popular office-email said, ‘A horse walks
gag. The site could feature an Amazon styled ‘Are you into a bar and the
barman says, “Why
276the author?’ option to save time and effort. the long face?” ’. That
person deserves as
much credit and
praise as the most
successful of
Chas Bayfield comedians and comic
15 August 2001 writers.
