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They are Focusing on the wrong thing(Web browser)

posted 8 years ago by shibez
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They should have been focusing on ISP's ...Thats where the real money was in the early 90s. Web Browsers should have been a focus in the late 90s onward to 00's

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[–] Jothos 8 years ago

Just shut up dude

[–] shibez 8 years ago

All major ISP's had integrated web browsers.

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[–] johnsonium 8 years ago

No. This isn't close to being true.

[–] neil-wattam 8 years ago

What do you think isp business modle is built on?!? Lol

[–] Sword_or_Pen 8 years ago

Creating software would be fairly inexpensive to scale up. Hardware (if that's what you mean by "focusing on ISP's) would be enormously expensive.

[–] UncleRob 8 years ago

OP is correct. An ISP is exactly the "door" that Joe described. All the browsers and email clients in the world won't do you any good unless you have a hardware connection to the telephone trunk lines that comprise the backbone of the Internet.

Plus, it's a good way to make money by "charging admission" (Joe's words).

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[–] stretchza 8 years ago

Netscape at the time was a massive organisation that was at the forefront of innovation. and in 1990/91, where we are in the timeline is prime for them to be embarking on a mosaic or NN type company while Donna heads more towards the line of compuserver and their browser...thoughts?

[–] shibez 8 years ago

Netscape was about the only web browser that was around at that time Next to internet explorer...But even still Netscape didn't happen until 1994. 3-4 years after they are talking about their "door"...Realistically for their "door" to happen...they would have had to built an ISP, with a integrated web browser(like AOL)

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[–] Huskie_Jon 8 years ago

ISPs are not the thing. They are the thing that gets them to the thing.

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[–] cinles 8 years ago

That's now called a door in 1990. 

[–] Huskie_Jon 8 years ago

But when is a door not a door?

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[–] cinles 8 years ago

When it's a thing?

[–] Huskie_Jon 8 years ago

When it is a jar.

Sorry.

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[–] cinles 8 years ago

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[–] Theoden_of_ODU 8 years ago

I don't think IE came on the scene until 1995 or so, with Windows 95.

I am pretty sure I only used the AOL integrated browser when I was on my Windows 3.1 browser, or on my friend's Mac. Never got into anything like Opera.

I remember jumping on Netscape Navigator pretty early once it was released, though probably not until after I was off the 3.1 machine. My brother and I were early adopters to Firefox because of it's similarities with Netscape (and that it was a whole lot better than IE 5.5).

No, not the mind probe!