[NTLK] News from the Weird ROM board

Matthias Melcher mm at matthiasm.com
Fri Oct 18 04:31:38 EDT 2013


On 18.10.2013, at 09:09, Ed Kummel <tech_ed at yahoo.com> wrote:

> No. I suspect that this is eWorld:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EWorld
> 
> 
> It was an online service that Apple put together to compete with AOL, CompuServe and Prodigy. It was designed to be a graphical environment that rivaled the ease of use that the Mac OS was so famous for.

Ouch. There are some things that I don;t mind that they did not come to pass.

But it is always a good reminder and helps answer the question why Newton doesn't come with a web browser or EMail client: the web was just not at that point yet.


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