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In 1992, they set up the world's first gondola which rotates around its vertical axis, and the company is still building, with a new cable car coming up online right about the time of writing, as the 23/24 annual report suggests. The screenshots of Taiwanese Windows XP with install instructions, the impeccable anime illustrations, the voice lines in Japanese, the links to Facebook, the login safety system that works via your phone, the terms of service giving you a 7 days ban if you use an exploit — I miss this stuff. Not many, indeed, are still brave enough to sail the rough seas of public scrutiny with their tiny little legal vessel, and have managed not to capsize despite everyone on board wishing they had jumped ship before that fateful IPO day.

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