Reagan was known for being an actor who played with monkeys on camera before he became president.
Also Nixon, just, in general.
I don't believe you.
My one holdover is YouTube. There's just no good replacement for it.
This is one of the most obvious potential cases of purposeful sabatoge. They were probably bribed by other big businesses to destroy their reputation so people would stop using the site.
There's nothing businesses hate more than their workers having negotiating power, and wage transparency gives them more power than they had before. There's a reason why it's considered "rude" in the US to discuss wages with co-workers; I always make a point to discuss my wage with all of my co-workers, since it's illegal for businesses to prevent that discussion.
In most other countries, it's the norm to openly discuss your wages; unions are also more common in other countries. It's just standard toxic workplace cultures trying to prevent people from getting paid what they're worth, or god forbid, forming a union.
But digitizing does have some benefits, like bit-for-bit archival, usually by a "third party"
The Windows equivilent would be instead of putting application data in the AppData folder, it throws it in Documents, My Games, or just in the home folder directly.
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I couldn't imagine spending $1 billion in my entire life, let alone 3-4.
Authoritarian tendencies since the web is a bit too close to providing its users with freedom of speech.
Remember when Microsoft said Windows 10 will be the last version of Windows?
Wow. You just somehow accurately summed up the modern day result of late stage capitalism in one post. Nicely done
DuckStation recently changed to a source-available license that prohibits distributing modified versions of the software and prohibits commercial use. Before, it was GPLv3.
Also OpenOffice, Emby, Audacity, Android (AOSP) (soft forked to LineageOS and GrapheneOS, but no hard fork)