[ExI] Thanksgiving

[Dave Sill]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 1:05 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
>
> I have these:
>
> 1.           Commercially viable computers, which I will kinda
> arbitrarily assign to Apple computer, about 1977.
>
You mean commercially viable personal computers? Because mainframes and
minis were already well established by then. Commodore and others helped
pave the way for Apple.

> 2.         HTML, which enabled the modern internet as we know it with
> websites and links and all the cool stuff on there, about 1993
>
That's bass ackwards: the Internet paved the way for HTML and the WWW. And
the smart phone.

> 3.         Cell phone technology, which reached inflection point around
> 2000 or so.
>
 My list would include:

  personal computers
  free software (GNU, Linux, and many more)
  public-key encryption
  the Internet
  GPS & sat nav
  searching (AltaVista, Google Search, Bing, DuckDuckGo)
  social networking (email, Usenet, MySpace, Twitter, FB)
  crowdsourcing (free software, Wikipedia, gofundme, pledgemusic,
Uber/Lyft, Grubhub/DoorDash)

Coming soon? Maybe:

  AI
  uploading

-Dave
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