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    Elon Musk's Picture from the 'Ancient Times' Reveals …

    The Elon Musk patents from the 90s that predicted h…

    Musk applied for a patent in 1997 (granted in 2001) that allowed computers to call land lines. While the patent isn’t quite realizing what FaceTime, Google Hangouts and Skype now allow us to do, Musk obviously saw the way communications were heading. His patent allowed computers to place calls to phone numbers a user came across on the web. The pat...

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    One of the most important features of the modern web is finding location-specific information. We want to know what’s around us, what we can do where we’re headed, and how far things are from us. In 1998, Musk submitted a patent to speed up the way that geographic searches are performed. His ideawas to create a search system that automatically cont...

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    Musk actually holds two patentsfor a directory service that provides business listings and directions to take you there. In a lot of ways, the idea is somewhere between Yelp and Google Places. Musk envisioned a website where people could find information about businesses and then get directions and their contact information from one centrally manag...

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