Early Facebook had no provision for sharing different things with different people
Early HTML had (and current HTML still has) hyperlinks to nowhere
Early Oracle would occasionally lose your data
Early Macs and Windows* lacked preemptive multiprocessing
Early Unix made no provision to keep a process from overwriting its own code
Early business computers didn't process lowercase alphabetics; early scientific computers didn't process alphabetics at all.
Early desk calculators would just go into an infinite loop if you were foolish enough to divide by 0
Early telephone calls had to be manually routed
Early steam engines were only economically feasible because the mines they were pumping out were coal mines
Early saddles didn't have stirrups
Early alphabets didn't have vowels
etc, etc
* there was even folk wisdom at the time that any sub-3.0 microsoft product was bound to be woefully lacking in at least one area
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Early Facebook had no provision for sharing different things with different people
Early HTML had (and current HTML still has) hyperlinks to nowhere
Early Oracle would occasionally lose your data
Early Macs and Windows* lacked preemptive multiprocessing
Early Unix made no provision to keep a process from overwriting its own code
Early business computers didn't process lowercase alphabetics; early scientific computers didn't process alphabetics at all.
Early desk calculators would just go into an infinite loop if you were foolish enough to divide by 0
Early telephone calls had to be manually routed
Early steam engines were only economically feasible because the mines they were pumping out were coal mines
Early saddles didn't have stirrups
Early alphabets didn't have vowels
etc, etc
* there was even folk wisdom at the time that any sub-3.0 microsoft product was bound to be woefully lacking in at least one area
reply