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Re:So you "just need a hacker", huh? by astrec on Tuesday March 25, 2008 @09:39PM (#146406)
Perhaps better stated that a lot of products did not identify their eventual use beforehand. For your list the seed product had some utility:

* adhesive gives rise to postit * rubber alternative gives rise to silly putty * pedagogic device gives rise to game, kernel

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Re:So you "just need a hacker", huh? by chaostheory on Tuesday March 25, 2008 @10:15PM (#146436)
"the seed product had some utility"

for some of the seed products their makers intended for them to have utility, but they didn't - that's why they were initial failures...

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