Interesting part of internet history is that a lot of people were convinced the devices to interface with the internet were going to be TV’s with these weird clients that used TV’s for display. 

In the late 90’s there were a few of these from startups and big legacy telecom companies.

General Magic (PBUH) did one with Viacom I think called web TV that got sold to Microsoft and eventually became MSN -> MSNBC

All the retrospective analysis in the world will not prepare you for the technology that people will build in the future

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Yeah it’s interesting. Less about tv specifically and more that path dependence is very strong mentally so it takes lateral thinkers to bring new things

Skeuomorphism is very common when a tech is new. :)