en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network... Larry Ellison's Network Computer failed and got discontinued after 4 years, but the animating idea of you personally not actually owning a computer has stayed strong since then. It ended up inspiring cloud computing and the horror that is Sam Altman

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Ellison kept mentioning this, he founded a company called Network Computer that sold thib clients with basically the minimum memory or CPU needed to simply connect with a server he would own and control

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Back in 1993, an Oracle exec named Tim Negris tried to claim that the future of computing was going to be thin clients, dumb terminals which simply connect you to the mainframe you rent computer from. Larry Ellison jumped on board with this, as a way to compete with Microsoft.

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Why wouldn’t the people who turned hotels into a service that pays them, taxis into a service that pays them, delivery into a service that pays them, also turn computers themselves into a service that pays them? The rent seekers want rent! How is that not obvious?

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Sorry this one is driving me insane because so many people told me it wasn’t happening three cycles into coming up with excuses to stockpile PC parts and make it prohibitively expensive to run a powerful PC at home

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