🌊 Ripple · counterfactual
What if the personal computer had gone differently?
1977 · north-america
A computer cheap and small enough to sit on a desk at home, sold to anyone.
If it had gone differently: Computers stay institutional machines; there is no home computing, no software industry, no user base for a web.
What it set up
- 1991The World Wide Web, Networked computers stay the preserve of universities and corporations; there is no open web for anyone to publish to.
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