seattle confrontation and the internet

Ryan Daum opiate at saturn5.com
Thu Dec 2 13:38:43 PST 1999


Steve Perry wrote:


> it's got to be quite a homer
> simpson moment for bill gates,
> gazing out at the monitors from
> the confines of his redmond bunker
> and realizing he put the tools in
> their hands. *d'oh!* indeed.

Sorry to butt in here, but Bill Gates and Co.had very very little to do with the development of the Internet, or with its mass adoption. In fact, they were rather suprised and taken aback by its sudden popularity and the lack of decent net client support on windows (as opposed to unix) until 1995...

But the thought is still amusing :-)

Ryan

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