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This is nonsense. Consumer workstations were proprietary. The internet was made by government grants and us.
by whoitwas 2y ago
This is nonsense. Consumer workstations were proprietary. The internet was made by government grants and us.
- wrs 2y agoNot sure who “us” is meant to be, but the first Internet boom (1995-2000) used a whole lot of Solaris, Windows, and Cisco. Of course there was plenty of OSS too, but Linux servers, or Intel servers, weren’t the standard. I remember visiting early Hotmail and their sharded “capital unit” was a great big Sun storage server and a bunch of Intel desktop towers running BSD. The latter was considered rather wild at the time. Last I checked, some eBay URLs still had “ebayISAPI.dll” in them, which is a remnant of that period.