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The story behind it is an interesting one though.

How many of you know what this is called?

Most of you will say bubble wrap. Some will call it stress relief. But if you asked the two engineers who invented it in 1957, they would have told you: "It’s a failure."

Alfred and Marc didn't set out to protect your fragile electronic packages. Far from that. They wanted to be interior designers.

They had this brilliant idea to create 3D Wallpaper. They thought the world was tired of flat, boring walls. So, they glued two shower curtains together, trapped some air in the middle, and told the world, "Look! We've invented trendy walls!"

The world looked, and then the world walked away. Nobody wanted to live in a house that looked like the inside of a swimming pool. Lol. 

They were stuck with miles of poppable plastic that nobody wanted. They tried to use it to insulate greenhouses. It failed. They tried to sell it as a curtain. It failed again.

They were officially broke until IBM stepped in.
IBM had just built a massive, delicate computer and they were terrified it would break during shipping. At the time, people were using old newspapers and horsehair (yes, really) to wrap things. It was messy and it didn't work.

The inventors pitched their failed wallpaper as a protective air cushion. IBM tried it, loved it, and suddenly, the failure became a multi-billion-dollar empire.

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