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Ask HN: Successful products that (in)famously lacked "table stakes" features?
3 points by ohong 2 hours ago | hide | past | web | 1 comment | favorite





Early LLMS just make shit up and don't double check

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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