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Company back from the verge of extinction. >> in 4 1/2 months, imac has become the number one selling computer in america. >> while bill gates ultimately represents the computer genius' entrepreneur, steve jobs represents the entrepreneur's artist. >> and you could say what you want about steve jobs, but he knew how to make people believe. >> in federal court in washington, d.c. today, a case of legal hard ball and computer software. the u.s. government set out to prove that computer industry giant microsoft tried to bully the competition illegally into submission or out of business. >> as mic...

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Sold next to apple for $400 million. he had no ambitions at apple at all. but steve jobs was watching apple flounder. and he just couldn't help himself and so he remade the company the way he wanted. and there was no one to oppose him because the company was exhausted. >> steve jobs had exactly the abrasive but incisive personality that apple needed at that point. they needed someone to come in and say kill that project, kill that project. that's stupid. consolidate that. and focus the company. >> i'd like to announce one of our first partnerships today, a very, very meaningful one and that is...

It was built like a sports car. when people think of computers they think of boring, beige, utilitarian. apple made it fun. >> you can take it home, take it out of the box, and be cruising the internet within ten minutes. and that's not something you can do on any other computer we know of. >> he added software to make it easier to connect to the internet so the i in imac was for internet. >> it changed how people thought of apple. and changed how people perceived what had been a dying company, suddenly people saw that there was a spark here. >> in the world of computers, it's kill or be kille...

It was a tool of the pentagon. but nowadays just about anyone with a computer and a modem can join in. >> the internet was a really dorky, hard to use, and extremely nerdy thing. none of your friends would have been on had. just fellow people in tech. >> the internet really was not a huge factor in the early '90s. but netscape changed things. >> they're calling him the next bill gates. 24-year-old mark andreessen, 15 months ago, fresh out of the university of illinois, he helped start a company called netscape. at 11:00 a.m. this morning, the company's stock went public and wall street went bo...