> Bill Gates dreamed up... This idea was ubiquitous in the 90s, only comparable to the AI hype today. All software was going to be written as components which

> Bill Gates dreamed up... This idea was ubiquitous in the 90s, only comparable to the AI hype today. All software was going to be written as components which could be combined and embedded into applications. It wasn't just Microsoft with OLE, the other behemoth was CORBA driven by IBM. Eventually the web browser absorbed and leapfrogged the whole idea (despite, as you mention, the best attempts of the 'establishment' to kill the web).