In March of 1997 WIRED Magazine published their cover story on how browsers might soon disappear as everyone would prefer stuff pushed to them instead of discovered via following links.
It was widely panned and browsers are still very much alive today but I have to say when I look at Instagram and TikTok, those are all-Push content apps and maybe WIRED got it a little bit correct?
@jwz@mathowie Remember that the most popular "push" app was a screensaver that floated news headlines and stock prices and so on across your screen when you weren't looking at it. I forget the name.
@mathowie they probably featured Pointcast in that article. An interesting product that the internet and people's bandwidth was not quite ready for. (I think it was likely mismanaged too.)
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