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The internet was beyond a frontier was clearly happening. But it's insane to me to pretend that most software was internet software. Yes that was the excitemen
by jauntywundrkind 10mo ago
The internet was beyond a frontier was clearly happening. But it's insane to me to pretend that most software was internet software.
Yes that was the excitement the enticing future & an amazing wave breaking upon us. Many were tuned in. But Napster is far more exception that proves the rule. Very very very consumers had any experience with networked software with client server, and I think you d have to be an absolute fucking moron to pretend that most of the world when we were thinking of computers them were thinking of networked client server systems. Get fuckign real. I appreciate that we the alpha geeks saw what was happening. But that doesn't embody what was actually happening, doesn't capture what people saw or felt.
Napster was the fucking envy. It pioneered something else. I admit it was mainstream, but as an exception that proved the rule, as something totally totally different that we all loved.