Silicon Valley, Halt and Catch Fire, and How Microserfdom Ate the World (2015)

Re:Silicon Valley, Halt and Catch Fire, and How Microserfdom... by bigpeopleareold on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @02:21AM (#43554116)

... or that the marketing and sales department is the real scaffold for enabling computing for those without university access.

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Re:Silicon Valley, Halt and Catch Fire, and How Microserfdom... by chgs on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @03:08AM (#43554336)

I don’t remember any tracking or adverts on computers when windows 95 came out (there were adverts for computers, I used to jay money to receive them in the way if computer shopper.

the first real annoyances were Spam and Punch the monkey, both parts of the advertising industry.

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Re:Silicon Valley, Halt and Catch Fire, and How Microserfdom... by genewitch on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @03:44AM (#43554485)

Click the link and put in the fifteenth word in the third paragraph, then click "about" and put in the fourth word in the second sentence.

The good old days before cookies and trackers...

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Re:Silicon Valley, Halt and Catch Fire, and How Microserfdom... by vel0city on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @11:10AM (#43557561)

The average Windows 95 machine was loaded with bundled software all asking to pay for a full license. ISPs were advertised in connection wizards built-in to the OS.

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