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Jon Erlichman on Twitter: "Tech themed Person of the Year: 1982: The Computer 1999: Jeff Bezos 2006: You (Web Content Creators) 2010: Mark Zuckerberg #TIMEPOY https://t.co/F8cvMZaKAF" / Twitter
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HISTORY - On this day in 1982, Time magazine chose to put the computer in its annual Person of the Year cover. This was the first time that an inanimate object was
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