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adventured on Jan 20, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Thanks for Trumpet Winsock

> Who knows if the internet would be everywhere today if the Windows users had been left out

I can answer that for you: yes, it would be. The value proposition is among the greatest that has existed in all of human history. The hardware was ready, the price was low enough, nothing was going to stop it; lack of a layperson standard mass-consumer OS would have just slowed it down briefly until one was inevitably created.

Tepix on Jan 23, 2016 [–]

You're forgetting about the competition. If AOL had had an even larger market share, they could potentially been more attractive than the internet.

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