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by canweriotnow 4026 days ago
Is AltaVista going to do an IoT pivot next? Maybe Pets.com?
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I really want to read cheesy near future speculative fiction from the late '90s where they toss around hot brands of the day like that. But I don't think any cyberpunk author worth their salt would have done something so easily that would go out of date.

Though this always gets a kick out of me (Orion's Arm, online massive sci-fi collaborative project http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-topic/45b2afc424975):

[2017] - Personal Virtual Reality media interfaces begin to take the market share from TV, radio, films, and other media.

[2018] - First supercomputer using memristors, 'Harvey', constructed by a team lead by Peter Shor at Bell labs, with funding from IBM, Lycos, RedHat and Pepsi.

They made a joint venture with Geocities