personal computer

“There were only maybe a hundred million PCs on earth when Netscape launched.”

“When the internet, when Netscape started in 1994, there were like a hundred million PCs on earth. And now something over five billion people have a smartphone.”

“Even when Netscape launched there in 94, there were like 75 to a hundred million PCs on earth, like on the whole planet. And now it's four and a half billion smartphones.”

“When Netscape launched in 1994, there were less than a hundred million PCs on us. And probably three quarters of them were in company. So there were like twenty-five million consumer PCs on the planet.”

“The cloud all runs on PCs, and like, all backend is on mainframes, and everyone's like, so there's always much fuzzier than in that kind of great schematic In that great scheme. The scheme, I suppose, the point is the scheme is conceptually useful for trying t…”

“And when they say we're building the metaverse, in the end, they want to replace PCs and smartphones with VR and pull everything into VR.”

“We're at this stage now of, like, internet early, PCs early eighties, internet early nineties, Enormous amounts of bullshit, and people kind of building this plumbing, and infrastructure, and that's where all the kind of clever, interesting stuff is.”