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Microsoft put Netscape and the concept of paying for a browser out of business long before FB and Google Hotmail started the war on people paying for email cli
by iso1210 6y ago
Microsoft put Netscape and the concept of paying for a browser out of business long before FB and Google
Hotmail started the war on people paying for email clients long before gmail
- cwhiz 6y agoMS certainly got the ball rolling with their anticompetitive behavior. But it was not until Facebook and Google created their spyware empires that it became essentially impossible to create paid content on the internet. Now the entire internet economy is broken.
- jefftk 6y ago> essentially impossible to create paid content on the internet Really? I see far more paywalls now than I did 5-10y ago
- iso1210 6y agoI don't recall much paid content per-se from 2000, when Yahoo ruled the roost. Now I have multiple subscription services which exist only because of the internet