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#126 – James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing

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The Cable Companies, You Know, They Hate the Internet.

Cable TV companies and broadcasters hated the Internet. They view their business as serving their customers, not selling eyeballs to advertisers. The internet was a competition in that sense. There were dustups with various cable companies where you could see this stratified layers of the corporation. But it didn't dawn on most people who worked at the cable companies.

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