The network is the computer

It must have been late 1995 (I don’t recall exactly) when Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle, visited The Netherlands. I think it was right after the introduction of Windows 95. Back then I was still working as an online journalist for RIV.NET1, the online channel at Riverland Networks (this later turned into Netcast and after that into Lost Boys business solutions, part of Lost Boys/Icon Medialab). He was promoting something called the “NC” or simply “Network Computer“. According to Ellison, the network computer would soon take over from desktop PCs, and many users would use applications loaded via a network […]