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In a message dated 3/21/2002 12:09:37 AM Eastern Standard Time, internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu writes:


>  agree that standardization has helped create markets. We differ in that I 
> believe world wide, public standards have done much more to create markets 
> than the defacto "standards" of a single company.


I agree. As a journalist, I was an early adopter because word processing was a killer ap for those of us in the profession just as spreadsheets and databases were for businesses. But most of the people I know outside of professions that relied on computers early didn't have a home PC until the Internet gave them a reason to have one at home. Even most people who used desktop machines at work seldom had them at home. We played games on consoles such as that Atari I got for xmas 20 years ago, and my first word processors were dedicated  machines, not PCs.

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