HN was briefly called "Startup News". I remember the popular prediction of software going service-based, probably delivered via a web browser or something like

HN was briefly called "Startup News". I remember the popular prediction of software going service-based, probably delivered via a web browser or something like one in the late 1990s and being disturbed at the prospect of being unable to pirate things. How else was I going to get software as a broke teenager?