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I think the thing with cars and laptops is that people understand that they don't know how to make them. Cars are big, and when I open the hood of an older car (before the nice, clean plastic emblazoned with the manufacturer's logo to keep me away from the engine), I knew I couldn't do what someone else had done. Likewise, laptops are small - I can't possible build that. But them someone looks at the output of Word or PowerPoint, and can't tell what makes a web page so different. They can make their screen look like a website, so how hard could it be?


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