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That hardly seems ironic. Operating systems have been around for several decades longer than web browsers, and many are orders of magnitude simpler.
by mkl 6y ago
That hardly seems ironic. Operating systems have been around for several decades longer than web browsers, and many are orders of magnitude simpler.
- ithkuil 6y agoIndeed you could write an order of magnitude simpler browser, and also write the web pages it could render. Probably most people wouldn't bother using it since they want to read some other, legacy web pages (you know, to pay their bills, shop online, check the weather forecast, book their flights). The analogy with operating systems is not silly, actually. Operating systems have indeed benefited/suffered from the network effect caused by "content" (programs). OSs were indeed becoming also feature-rich bahemoats that are hard to recreate faithfully enough in order to run that legacy stuff.