[erwan577]

the conclusion feels a little abrupt to me. What about the differences between web 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0? What about the failed W3C standards? What about the limitations of web apps compared to native mobile apps? What about the closed gardens that Facebook/Meta and newer social networks are trying to build? And lastly, countries are restricting web access to their own jurisdiction. The wars are just beginning.

[garbagecoder]

I think he also missed the fact that Windows NT came from VMS, not unix. The article needed an editor for sure.

I think your point rings true, there are always these platform wars. But there is much more ease of interoperability now. Even reading a 5.25" disk on a different system was sometimes impossible, lots of things like that. Keyboards and monitors had different connectors.

When Apple went to USB it was like a miracle. Circa.. 1995? Maybe with the iMac.

[p_l]

iMac was the one with usb replacing serial, parallel, ADB and floppy with built in cdrom and usb.

This meant some issues that were quite complained about, because at its release in 1998 the only way to export data was over network (or IrDA). USB Mass Storage was supported starting next year, and pendrives debuted in 2000.

[MisterTea]

Whole article feels abrupt. The hasty pace feels like its trying to get the reader to the end as fast as possible while saying as little as possible. Not sure what the point even is other than a very brisk walk down memory lane.

[erwan577]

Also the language wars are related to the platform/OS wars but are much more diverse.