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** Linux was considered revolutionary because it was a full UNIX system that could run on a single off-the-shelf PC. Since then every UNIX-like OS has been ported to the platform.
* [[UseNet]]. In a world where any schmuck with an Internet connection can start a blog or a message board, this has gone from "groundbreaking innovator" to "place where only spammers frequent" very quickly.
* The [[wikipedia:Gopher (protocol)|Gopher Protocol]], which organized content on the internet into a browseable (by a text menu interface) hierarchy of sites, files and folders, complete with a search engine has been all but lost to current generations of web users as the direct predecessor
* People these days, with handheld computing devices such as smart phones, kindles, ipads, etc.. probably don't remember the [[wikipedia:MessagePad|Newton Message pad]], the grandfather so to speak of many of these, and direct ancestor of the ipad and quite a few of them more then likely would think of them as unwieldy or clunky, but when they were introduced in 1994 they were far ahead of the time.
** They were ''too'' far ahead of the time, which is why they were unwieldy and clunky (even by 1994 standards). When Palm came along and did the same thing, with much less ambition, they were unbelievably successful.
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