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Random Facts #39 · 3:06am Mar 17th, 2017

I almost forget every time...

The original iPod pretty much set the standard for mp3 players.

The iPhone set the standard for modern smartphones.

Nokia used to be one of the world's biggest companies.

Initially, there was consideration to sell Mojang, (and Minecraft) to Valve.

The first ever computer "bug" was a moth that short-circuited a mainframe's motherboard after landing on two contacts.

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What made them want to sell to valve?

4460642 Notch said that he couldn't handle running Mojang after it grew to such big of a size, so he began looking for people who'd buy Mojang from him. He didn't want to sell to Valve because if I remember, he didn't like their business practices.

4464705 I'm not entirely sure, but I think I remember that it had something to do with extremely slow update schedules.

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