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Quick question for all the music buffs out there: in all of Aerosmith’s thirty-eight year career, what was its most successful week in sales? Obviously, it was a week with a new release, but which release? Was it 1975’s release of Toys in the Attic, which later went 8x platinum? Or maybe it was 1974’s Get Your Wings, which went on to go 3x platinum? Well, no. Die-hard Aerosmith fans might be more than a little shocked to hear that the band’s most successful debut was not one of its singles, not one of its multi-platinum albums, not even one of its greatest hits collections, but a video game.

In November of 2008, 40A Inc., an African American owned company, released its version of a web browser named Blackbird. According to Blackbird’s website, “Blackbird was developed on the simple proposition that we, as the African American community, can make the Internet experience better for ourselves and, in doing so, make it better for everyone.” This browser, powered by Mozilla, was made with the intent to help find African American related information and helping users interact with the African American community more easily.