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>Yet the sky is not falling with all this going on with everyone's computer on earth, like how people fear the sky will fall if we opened up the mobile phone.
by nemothekid 4y ago
>Yet the sky is not falling with all this going on with everyone's computer on earth, like how people fear the sky will fall if we opened up the mobile phone.
This is because everything was moved to the web and users were beaten over the head with a hammer to never install anything on their computers. The sky was falling and subsequently the desktop software platform hardly exists today.
- TillE 4y agoI expect Microsoft's built-in antivirus helped a lot too, but yeah, the Windows XP era (c. 2001-2010 probably) was an absolute disaster of malware.
- anikom15 4y agoHow exactly was the sky falling?
- aasasd 4y agohttp://static.spiceworks.com/images/how_to_steps/0000/3886/too_many_toolbars.jpg http://static.spiceworks.com/images/how_to_steps/0000/3886/t...
- anikom15 4y agoThis is funny, but in practice there would be maybe one or two of these bars. Many didn’t work together. These toolbars didn’t stop people from being able to work, eat, or pay their bills. I know. I lived through this era.