> I agree, Id almost love to see a "For All Mankind"-esque show about it - an alternative history where browsers ran on lisp I've thought about something simil

> I agree, Id almost love to see a "For All Mankind"-esque show about it - an alternative history where browsers ran on lisp I've thought about something similar, but for hardware--what if some early hardware design choices had went in a different way? For example consider cathode ray tube (CRT) displays. A different choice by the CRT pioneers and we might have ended up with CRTs that scan outward in a spiral from the center, instead of scanning in a series of stacked left to right rows. That would make bit mapped displays a lot more complicated. God help the programmer who has to write BITBLT for a spiral scan display.