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Re:Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense,... by FedRegister on Friday August 16, 2013 @09:19AM (#6223788)
>It used to be that HP engineers were expressly given Friday afternoons and full access to company resources to just play with new ideas. Among other things, this led to HP owning the printer market.

And arguably enabling the Apple I.

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