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  2. List of best-selling video game franchises - Wikipedia

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    Minecraft: November 18, 2011: 350 million [52] Minecraft is a sandbox and survival video game originally created by Swedish game designer Markus "Notch" Persson and developed by Mojang. Originally a computer indie game made using Java, it has since been ported to game consoles and mobile devices. It was bought by Microsoft Studios in November 2014.

  3. Rust (video game) - Wikipedia

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    A comparison of two different updates of Rust, the top (2014) one is the earlier of the two.The bottom (2016) used an updated game engine. Rust ' s development began as a clone of DayZ, [28] a popular survival mod for ARMA 2, featuring elements derived from Minecraft. [29]

  4. History of Microsoft - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft is a multinational computer technology corporation. Microsoft was founded on April 4, 1975, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico. [1] Its current best-selling products are the Microsoft Windows operating system; Microsoft Office, a suite of productivity software; Xbox, a line of entertainment of games, music, and video; Bing, a line of search engines; and Microsoft ...

  5. History of the graphical user interface - Wikipedia

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    With the introduction of AmigaOS 2.0, however, the user was free to select whether the main Workbench window appeared as a normally layered window, complete with a border and scrollbars, through a menu item. Amiga users were able to boot their computer into a command-line interface (also known as the CLI or Amiga Shell). This was a keyboard ...

  6. Instant noodles - Wikipedia

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    Modern instant noodles were created by Momofuku Ando in Japan. [4] [5] They were first marketed on 25 August 1958 by Ando's company, Nissin, under the brand name Chikin Ramen. [6] Before Ando invented instant noodles, the process of mechanically curving noodles into a wavy shape had already been invented by Yoshio Murata in 1953.

  7. Hot Wheels - Wikipedia

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    Hot Wheels is an American media franchise and brand of scale model cars invented by Elliot Handler and introduced by his company Mattel on May 18, 1968. [2] It was the primary competitor of Matchbox until Mattel bought Matchbox owner Tyco Toys in 1997.

  8. List of Italian inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    Pistol: first handheld guns were probably created in the city of Pistoia around 1540. [172] Anyway, the etymology of the word is still debated. [173] In 1833 Francesco Antonio Broccu built the first prototype of the (percussion cap) revolver, which was later independently conceived and mass-produced by the American Samuel Colt. [174] [175] [176 ...

  9. Hindu units of time - Wikipedia

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    A 30-day month amounts to four 7-day weeks with an extra 8th day every two weeks (48-week year). A traditional human year is measured by the sun's northern ( uttarayana ) and southern ( dakshinayana ) movements in the sky, [ d ] where the new year commences only when the sun returns to the same starting point and a pause on the commencement ...