[Gllug] Moblin

[Peter Corlett]

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 08:19:14AM +0100, Ryan Cartwright wrote:
> on 2009/5/29 Nix wrote:
[...]
>> ... this is what people (well, neurotypicals, i.e. not me) *do* with new
>> technology. We're a chattering social species, so anything new gets used
>> for conversation first and everything else second. When the telephone
>> originally came in they had ideas like news over the phone, music over
>> the phone... all failed, and what survived? Chatting over the phone.
> Ah, Dial-a-disc, I remember it well. :o)

What Nix is referring to predates Dial-a-disc by half a century. The
original idea for the telephone was to provide a walled-garden broadcast
service. Unsurprisingly, it tanked.

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