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Re:LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop by bitwize on Sunday February 15, 2026 @06:13PM (#47028740)
Netscape was talking about making the Web an app platform to replace Microsoft Windows even way back then. The world we're living in today is exactly what they envisioned.
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Re:LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop by rbanffy on Sunday February 15, 2026 @06:37PM (#47028960)
Electron wouldn’t be possible back then.
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Re:LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop by bitwize on Monday February 16, 2026 @03:29AM (#47032406)
Electron was effectively invented by Microsoft in 1999:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application

Which is funny, because HTML, Java, and JavaScript were being talked about as an app platform a few years before then, precisely to prevent Microsoft from drinking everybody's milkshake on the desktop.

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