Of course, it also helped the later efforts that the other shoe of CD-ROM and Internet appliance development never really dropped - at least how they were expec

Of course, it also helped the later efforts that the other shoe of CD-ROM and Internet appliance development never really dropped - at least how they were expecting. It still boggles my mind that basic web skills (HTML, CSS, etc.) didn't proliferate in academic settings, outside of tech curriculum. The death of most of the appliance devices was so fast that people never really tried to learn it. You aren't going to make everybody a programmer, but the arc of history would have been different if that was the baseline.