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Re:Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time? by ams6110 on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @10:32AM (#14604111)
Many of the web startups in the late 1990s had good ideas but were about 20 years too early.

A lot of things that have succeeded today were tried then and failed either because the technology couldn't scale, or the bandwidth wasn't there, or because people just weren't ready for it.

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Re:Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time? by rjsw on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @10:41AM (#14604176)
I worked for two startups in the 1980s that were doing online hypertext and searching multiple online databases.

Failure reasons were the ones you list plus lack of TCP/IP provision.

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Re:Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time? by kyriakos on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @01:41PM (#14606098)
How many social media companies did it take before Facebook got it 'right'?
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