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Ask HN: Got stories about why a technology succeeded/failed?
When I'm reading about new technologies, I run into older technologies that succeeded or failed. Then I read about the context at the time.
Anyone have/looked into stories like that? An example would be reading about the history of relational databases, and how they replaced hierarchical databases. Then a resurgence of path-dependent access like in hierarchical databases in XML documents.
- verdverm 7y agoWe are thinking about configuration, and how we are at a point where things have reached a limit, something different is needed, and how today's solutions will all be replaced (except for the one) You can read more about our thoughts here: https://hofstadter.io/blog/2020/04/22/what-was-and-what-shall-be/ https://hofstadter.io/blog/2020/04/22/what-was-and-what-shal...