I actually worked on this at the beginning of my career (I still have the mug to prove it), quickly concluded the technology was inadequate and doomed (mostly d

I actually worked on this at the beginning of my career (I still have the mug to prove it), quickly concluded the technology was inadequate and doomed (mostly due to considerations around atomic transactions), and bailed shortly after. General Magic had a partnership with AT&T and they did much of the heavy lifting to make it semi-viable, for instance Bell Labs developed "High Telescript" (the underlying Telescript was more akin to Forth). AT&T expended a ridiculous amount of money on the project, with almost no revenue to show up for it, but some of those investments like their dialup modem server or their email platform were later repurposed in their Internet Service Provider offering.