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https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/on-ramp-prospects-for-the-information-superhighway-dream/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publicat
by shadowofneptune 5y ago
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/on-ramp-prospects-for-the-information-superhighway-dream/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/on-ramp...
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1994-04-11-1994101115-story.html https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1994-04-11-19941011...
Looks like at the time the interest in the 'information superhighway' from MS was in proprietary services which were more like cable pay-per-view. That the term later was a synonym for the World Wide Web is misleading.
I guess similar terms today would be Web3 or Metaverse where lots of industry players agree it is desirable but don't agree on what it would look like. A buzzword.
- serf 5y ago>I guess similar terms today would be Web3 or Metaverse where lots of industry players agree it is desirable but don't agree on what it would look like. A buzzword. well the Microsoft attempt was making an AOL-like half-assed contracted ISP (MSN) to compete with Excite/Yahoo/Lycos so they could shove ad-like experiences into peoples browser start page. Let's hope the web3/metaverse turns out a bit more user-oriented -- 90s web companies were brutal.