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First smart phone was produced by IBM in 1992, the Simon Personal Communicator. It was created more than 15 years before the first I-Phone

NetMarket or Internet Shopping Network were both launched a year before Amazon.

The first practical electric automobile was invented in 1859. Electric cars started to come back in 1959 with a collaboration between AMC and Sonotone. In the 1990s several manufacturers were beginning to mass produce EVs. All of this done LONG before Tesla started.
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