re: #148 KGxvi

On a side note, I still don’t understand how Sears wasn’t on the forefront of online shopping, that’s basically what the Sears Catalog was for about 100 years before the internet.

I’m less surprised by the brick and mortar guys missing the importance of the internet than I am about how long Microsoft failed to see the potential. I grew up in Redmond and it was clear when I graduated high school in ‘91 that the internet was going to take off, but Bill Gates and the Microsoft board didn’t see the potential for browsers, search engines and online shopping until others proved it. It’s crazy how much opportunity they pissed away.