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by sounds 4255 days ago
Part of what made the internet such a big change to "things" was that it didn't attempt to replace "everything" wholesale. I'm fairly sure that form of the idea was tried -- for example, PC/GEOS -- but the idea that succeeded was the one that allowed the most people to try it out and see what it did.

I'm trying not to add more words to that paragraph, though I could/should.