> They mentioned an "NUI" and called it a "Network User Interface", would the modern equivalent just be interactive websites that we are very used to today? Ye

> They mentioned an "NUI" and called it a "Network User Interface", would the modern equivalent just be interactive websites that we are very used to today? Yes. I think that the lesson of “NUI” is basically ChromeOS, a ChromeBook experience. You need enough OS to boot the computer, set up the hardware, and start the web browser. That’s a platform sufficient to provide pretty much enough computer for most people. (I just wrote a bunch of paragraphs about trying to disrupt Microsoft Windows in the 1990s, but deleted it. Essentially, when Linux and open source boot-loaders had enough hardware support to deploy on real laptops, and web browser standard had enough features, and network was fast enough, mass-market “NUI” was obvious. That took about fifteen years, and thousands of developers. A tenfold reduction in RAM prices. But here we are. Closer to 1997, we could do “NUI” in controlled environments, in corporate networks. Thin clients. Turns out, that still needed things like “Office” software and printer drivers. But oh my goodness how we tried… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ray https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ray )