hello
im looking for a meme that i saw few days ago : it’s about connected fridges :
-2000s : “i went up to connect the fridge to the internet!” -2020s : “i went up to disconnect the fridge of the internet!”
thank you :)
Nobody wanted that in 2000. If they did BeOS wouldn’t have died immediately after trying to become an “appliance os”.
Wow! BeOS mentioned. Hello, fellow old person. While you read this comment, imagine two towers of green LEDs, gently rising and falling, based on the complexity of each word while we just Be, together.
Now let’s remember why BeOS actually failed: Illegal contracts from Microsoft to prevent PC vendors from selling PCs preloaded with BeOS. Be, Inc sued Microsoft and settled out of court for $23 million and I remember that moment, thinking, “That’s not enough!”
Microsoft destroyed BeOS. Not any sort of market condition or natural state of economics. The whole, “let’s turn it into an appliance OS” thing was a last ditch pivot in an attempt to save the company. It was doomed from the start.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2003/sep/07/microsoftpays
Aside: Just like Palm’s WebOS which also tried to pivot into an appliance OS. Except in that case, that OS was destroyed by sheer incompetence on the part of HP’s brain dead CEO: Carly Fiorina. To this day, she’s still tarnishing her image by associating with the Trump administration. Very pro-Nazi.
If you ever want to point out an obvious example of how CEOs aren’t any smarter than anyone else and normally only get the job based on nepotism and industry incest, she’s the perfect go-to!
