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Absolutely realize that. Not getting how that should change anything. It was the height of arrogance 33 years ago, and a "teachable moment" for which I'm 33 yea
by rdiddly 7y ago
Absolutely realize that. Not getting how that should change anything. It was the height of arrogance 33 years ago, and a "teachable moment" for which I'm 33 years late. The changes to the landscape that you refer to, I refer to. I lived them. Today's world was the inevitable outcome. Though I didn't realize that until about 1994.
- rbanffy 7y agoToday's world would be very different had a few things happen slightly differently. Back in 1986 there was no way to predict the web. Or ISP's or widespread adoption of IP networks. There was no way to predict open source would eventually win. In 1986 I was using a Minitel system to do banking from home, communicating through a couple BBSs, from an Apple II and an MSX. We were discussing Xanadu, SGML, and the latest issue of BYTE or Creative Computing. Had Microsoft deployed their Microsoft Network globally a few years before they tried, the web would be extremely different. We were quite lucky. A lot could have gone very wrong.
- rdiddly 7y agoYour point is taken but I think we're coming at it from different places. I think something did go majorly wrong.