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Alphabet is shutting down Loon
- fossuser 6y agoI’m going to say I called this one at least 8 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23419270 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23419270 Loon is not competitive in a world with Starlink (even without Starlink it seems). The business didn’t make strategic sense. I still really liked their original goal of loon for all and the first video they made for it: https://youtu.be/m96tYpEk1Ao https://youtu.be/m96tYpEk1Ao It’s a little sad they had to downsize and give up. I guess Licklider was write to title the original internet paper an “intergalactic computer network”. Loon for all started too small. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergalactic_Computer_Network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergalactic_Computer_Network —- Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23419880 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23419880 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25601473 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25601473