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People should start learning from history. Microsoft tried just that, the launched a curated competitor to the WWW in 1995 along Windows 95 called "The Microsof
by frik 11y ago
People should start learning from history. Microsoft tried just that, the launched a curated competitor to the WWW in 1995 along Windows 95 called "The Microsoft Network" (short MSN v1). Bill Gates micropayment per view vision he detailed in his book "The Road Ahead" just didn't work out. The free ads based WWW got very successful, and MSN v1 gone nowhere.
If you want see "The Microsoft Network" in action, watch the following advertisement video from Microsoft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGYcNcFhctc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGYcNcFhctc
Last time Google disrupted the bad ads market when the annouced their Google text based ads 10 years ago. Now it's time to disrupt the ads market again, with a better "good" ads concept that is okay for the consumer so that they don't use adblockers.