I miss the rise (and fall) of desktop.com (which is coming back under a new owner; some ideas never go away). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop.com h

I miss the rise (and fall) of desktop.com (which is coming back under a new owner; some ideas never go away). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop.com for more. Katie Mitic and the Drebes had a vision for client-computing that was really fun, but browsers and the market just weren't there. It's kind of funny: the iPhone was lauded for being skeumorphic and then that faded away. Desktop guis also went through this, at one end becoming Microsoft Home, and the other end being, well, pick your favorite Linux desktop ( 8-) ). Is this a new wave, only instead of reflecting the physical world (why is the save button still a 3.5" floppy?), now it reflects a desktop gui?