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> Remember NeXT? Wasn't that the computer that the first web browser and web server were developed for and on? And a bunch of famous video games were develope
by mcphage 3y ago
> Remember NeXT?
Wasn't that the computer that the first web browser and web server were developed for and on? And a bunch of famous video games were developed on it? It was never a consumer computer company, but for its niche it was pretty successful.
- coldtea 3y agoWe're speaking about success as a business, on its business goals, not what was developed on it. If somebody wrote the "first web browser" on BeOS it make it any less of a failure as a business venture.
- mcphage 3y ago> If somebody wrote the "first web browser" on BeOS it make it any less of a failure as a business venture. Maybe if Tim Berners-Lee had, BeOS wouldn't have been a business failure. Or at least successful enough to be purchased for $400 million?
- knome 3y ago>Wasn't that the computer that the first web browser and web server were developed for and on Tim Berners-Lee invented the WWW, and wrote the first server and browser while working for CERN.
- mstade 3y agoYes, using NeXT workstations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_server#/media/File:First_Web_Server.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_server#/media/File:First_W...
- rvz 3y agoThis is about the business itself and NeXT Inc. was a commercial failure for workstation class personal computers in the market.