Of course, it depends on your age as well: I've seen the rise and decline of CompuServe, AOL, AltaVista, MySpace, Compaq, Gateway, Siemens-Nixdorf and so on. Not to name Nokia, RIM/Blackberry, Atari, Commodore, Sinclair and many, many others. Many of them could be seens as "major players" in their fields at a time. We used Mosaic & Netscape as web browsers and MSIE was pure evil ... there was no Chrome, there wasn't even Google. Or look at the changes IBM & Microsoft have gone through.
Maybe Google, FB & AMZ are bigger and will stay on top longer, but 30 or 50 years from now, the world will have changed.
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[ 2.1 ms ] story [ 13.8 ms ] threadOf course, it depends on your age as well: I've seen the rise and decline of CompuServe, AOL, AltaVista, MySpace, Compaq, Gateway, Siemens-Nixdorf and so on. Not to name Nokia, RIM/Blackberry, Atari, Commodore, Sinclair and many, many others. Many of them could be seens as "major players" in their fields at a time. We used Mosaic & Netscape as web browsers and MSIE was pure evil ... there was no Chrome, there wasn't even Google. Or look at the changes IBM & Microsoft have gone through.
Maybe Google, FB & AMZ are bigger and will stay on top longer, but 30 or 50 years from now, the world will have changed.