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by bluishscreen 2272 days ago
Super interesting to read about all the technologies (... MediaView? MOS? RPC for... webpage-like things?) & the way they imagined the future to look like before the web (... which is so obvious to us now that we can't even imagine anything else). E.g. the way they imagined webapps as getting a view of the file system, which is actually how Android apps turned out to be; not web apps though (... except maybe some very recent APIs?). Also, "payments" (for which we still don't have a standardized solution; we sell user data instead).

Also, knowing CSS, their statement of "layout for the web is much easier than for Visual Basic" is kinda... endearing.