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Chrome OS and Steve Jobs at WWDC 1997

I've enjoyed watching this Steve Jobs WWDC video from 1997.

Funnily enough, some of the things he was describing sounds very familiar to Chrome OS.

"because we were using NFS, we were able to take all of our personal data, our “home directories” we called them, off of our local machines and put them on a server. And the software made that completely transparent..."

"that carrying around these non-connected computers or computers with tons of data and state in them is byzantine by comparison"

Don't you think that sounds a lot like what Google is trying to achieve?

Via onstartups.com. Read more: 16 Brilliant Insights From Steve Jobs Circa 1997

Watch the video. Comments on networking start at around 17 minutes in.

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