I’m going to be the devils advocate guy because I can.
I had to renew the registration on my car last month and the only thing I couldnt do from my chair was take the car to a mechanic for the annual inspection. Other than that in 15 minutes after my kid went to bed I got quotes for and shopped around for the best prices on my car insurance, compulsory insurance who uploaded the certificate to the govt, the mechanic had already uploaded a certificate of roadworthy to the govt for me too. What was a full day of running around, waiting at the DMV and phonecalls 25 years ago took me literally 15 minutes when it was convenient for me while eating snacks in my boxers.
Yeah the big companies are doing a lot of predatory shit atm, but a lot of people either dont remember or arent old enough to appreciate just how inefficient the early internet was at getting shit done.
I would say that is not a limitation of the early web technologies. It was the fact that people had not widely adopted the technologies yet. Many of the interoperability features that you were talking about could be easily implemented using older tech. Some modern frameworks may make it easier to have that sort of interoperability, but it was really I think a matter of it taking time for mass adoption
I’m going to be the devils advocate guy because I can.
I had to renew the registration on my car last month and the only thing I couldnt do from my chair was take the car to a mechanic for the annual inspection. Other than that in 15 minutes after my kid went to bed I got quotes for and shopped around for the best prices on my car insurance, compulsory insurance who uploaded the certificate to the govt, the mechanic had already uploaded a certificate of roadworthy to the govt for me too. What was a full day of running around, waiting at the DMV and phonecalls 25 years ago took me literally 15 minutes when it was convenient for me while eating snacks in my boxers.
Yeah the big companies are doing a lot of predatory shit atm, but a lot of people either dont remember or arent old enough to appreciate just how inefficient the early internet was at getting shit done.
I would say that is not a limitation of the early web technologies. It was the fact that people had not widely adopted the technologies yet. Many of the interoperability features that you were talking about could be easily implemented using older tech. Some modern frameworks may make it easier to have that sort of interoperability, but it was really I think a matter of it taking time for mass adoption
Oh no doubt, but it doesnt matter wether these companies didnt or couldnt the end result for me as a consumer was the same. It just wasnt there.