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		DrScientist on May 5, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI” Exactly. Initially, they viewed it as a faster way to download content - rather than an application platform.

inanutshellus on May 5, 2023 [–]

I don't quite follow? I'd say "s/download content/access information/g", but also by "late 1995" there still wasn't "oh, the internet is an application platform", it was still "connect to the whole world, whoaaaaaa".

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