Google “We Have No Moat, and Neither Does OpenAI”

Re:Google “We Have No Moat, and Neither Does OpenAI” by greedo on Friday May 05, 2023 @06:18PM (#35835785)

I disagree with the parent post entirely. Most people in 1995 didn't know what the Internet was going to become. It was a geeky thing that most didn't use. Speeds were slow, most people thought gopher was a small rodent, etc. And for every article saying the Internet was the next big thing, there were many questioning what it would be good for.

Heck, Mosaic wasn't even in development in 1990. It was released in late 1993, and it wasn't until Navigator was released in 1994 that "browsing" became a thing. Most people before then weren't going to use an FTP site off an obscure college to DL something originally intended for X windows...

People forget how fast the Web took off at that point. From 1994 to 1999, the growth was just crazy, with improvements in features every six months.

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Re:Google “We Have No Moat, and Neither Does OpenAI” by bsaul on Friday May 05, 2023 @06:36PM (#35835934)

let's say it was the beginning of an exponentially growing curve. For those that were interested in computers, the writing was on the wall. Science fiction had already written about gigantic networks and virtual worlds for decades, we knew what was coming.

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