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absolutely everybody in software was talking about the internet in 1995, and for the most part already on the internet, and companies were already pivoting to t
by fsckboy 2y ago
absolutely everybody in software was talking about the internet in 1995, and for the most part already on the internet, and companies were already pivoting to the internet left and right. It made me realize how discretionary is all the work we do in these large industries, because whatever we were working on in 1993 and 1994 no longer mattered, we were now working on enabling whatever assets we had to be compatible with the internet.
- codeisawesome 2y agoI’m not sure I’d agree with pivoting being a signal that prior work was discretionary. I think, in a lot of cases the strategic pressure from competition becoming more efficient or productive by capturing Internet traffic could have been a real reason as well.
- mistrial9 2y agono, not everybody ... pre-existing sectors with commercial applications, get this, existed before the Internet. Lots of companies had their verticals, and as mentioned elsewhere, the "open net" was not at all the same
- fsckboy 2y agoI existed before the internet, and I worked with clients in pre-existing sectors with commercial applications in their verticals and once the net opened up, they all wanted to be on it. I hope I turned that into jargon you can understand, because I sure couldn't make sense of it.