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

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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