The rise of the Internet has been one of the most transformative developments in human history, comparable in impact to the invention of the printing press and the telegraph.

互联网的兴起是人类历史上最具变革性的发展之一，其影响堪比印刷机和电报的发明。

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Stimulus diffusion refers to an element of one culture leading to an invention in another.

刺激扩散指的是一种文化元素导致另一种文化的发明。

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One of the greatest advances in computer science has been the invention of the GUI.

计算机科学中最伟大的一项成就就是发明了GUI。

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One of the great discoveries in television and movies was the invention of the laugh track.

电视界和电影界一个很有趣的发现就是,发明了笑声音轨。

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In my opinion, none of the suggestions offered at the conference would change the real problem, which is that the Patent Office examiners are too quick to issue software patents where the so-called invention is obvious to one skilled in the art.

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All three runners turned the trick in the 1960s, the last one in 1967 -- four years before Intel's invention of the microprocessor ushered in the Information Age as we know it.

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For their part, Dish argues that people have been skipping TV ads, in one way or another, since the invention of television.

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