A Google balloon sails through the air with the Southern Alps mountains in the background, in Tekapo, New Zealand five days ago. Google is testing the balloons which sail in the stratosphere and beam the Internet to Earth. ((AP Photo/Jon Shenk))
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg turned 28 on Monday. He was born the same year as Apple's Macintosh computers.
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Gideon Sundback: At first, the world shunned the zipper
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