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https://gizmodo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/19/original.jpg?quality=7522001238If you know your bit of technology history, you’d know that Apple was actually working on an iPad before it developed the iPhone. What did those iPad prototypes look like? Well, according to these earliest known photos of an iPad prototype from the early 2000s, it looked really, really fat.