It wasn’t really public. But the name shows the intent that microsoft had back then. Gates really thought he could own the internet and totally gate keep it.
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Nicely done. 
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I remember CompuServ installers on the front of just about every computer magazine! 
No thanks… I was never interested in walled gardens! 
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I had CompuServe when I was in Saudi, it was great then, but as soon as I was home it was a linux server and life was amazing. It held such great promise back then, the internet. I was amazed estate agents and recruiters were still a thing and here we are 30 years later and they still exist. It’s crazy how slow humanity is to progress.
The immune response system of a society is very strong, unless faced with immediate adversity, even then only when the adversity is at your door 
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It’s why I’m hoping we will all have some time to adjust to AI!
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It didn’t help having patent trolls suppress innovation during the entire aughties. Utter parasites.
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That was a major issue and in the uK no patent meant you were a scammer, so we had patents we opened up. That way we could be seen as really and prove it, but had to work hard to adapt and move things along. The patent trolls though were mental crazy vicious and killed a lot of innovation. Although the big corps were patenting like mad to try and stay able to operate. It was a crazy crazy time for stifling humanity for sure.
I feel that’s mostly over now an open source won or is very close to it anyway.
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And soon, people will be able to simply build & launch, with Autonomi, and without concern of any form of monied parasite, past or present, coming to stop it.
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🚨BREAKING: Apple surrenders to the Labour government and removes highest level data security tool for Apple users
— Inevitable West (@Inevitablewest) February 21, 2025
The government now has access to its citizens messages and camera roll.
This is the biggest breach of privacy Western civilisation has ever seen.
Britain is in… pic.twitter.com/pZmamDjw7O
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Apple is rotten to the core. Apple died with Steve Jobs.
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I have never been a fan of closed-source expensive white plastic and brushed aluminium.
And I say this as the first dealer to sell PowerPCs in Scotland back in the early 90s.
I was a fan then, the markup was eye-watering
Other larger more established companies soon noticed and my exclusive status only lasted a couple of months. Good while it lasted though…
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Can we assume the same for google storage?
I’ve always assumed that for anything Google.
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It wouldn’t be any fun, because you’d never know if you were doomed or not doomed (as you are stuck in a state of quantum superposition), until you turn off the game.
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This is really disappointing. I hope that Apple users are paying attention and begin a boycott.
Presumably google allows the govnt access to users cloud storage already? If not why aren’t they in the news too? What about other phone manufacturers with their own backup/cloud facilities which are growing now that google has been forced to allow phone manufacturers to install their own competing services. Interesting and worrying times.
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I am so excited that I will post this here, because today I got the api to work. 
Excuse my crappy video though, upload and retrieved via the python api.
Small step for mankind… huge step for Josh!! 
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Soon also a huge step for Autonomi. 
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Every cloud operator that has physical presence in the US is obligated to give the united states government unlimited and unchecked access to every system worldwide.
Well, that might be a bit difficult for node runners, if they are counted in…