re: #66 Dr Lizardo
The story I hear - and I used to work for Sears back in the 1990βs - was that internet retail was βa pie-in-the-sky dreamβ that would never go anywhere.
I heard the exact same thing from a computer science PhD in the mid-70s when I asked him about the PCs (that is Apple IIs, PETs and TRS80s) coming onto market.