[Tfug] Thank goodness for Bill Gates!

[keith smith]

I thought it was Al Gore ... Oh wait a minute he created the Internet.....

Michael Schultheiss <schultmc at cinlug.org> wrote: JD Rogers wrote:
> On 9/20/06, Chris Hill  wrote:
> > Without space shuttles we wouldn't have velcro.
> 
> Really!? I thought it was some Swiss guy who came up with the idea in
> the 50's while pulling burrs out of his dog.

Close:

Velcro was invented in 1948 by Georges de Mestral, a Swiss engineer.

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