Atomozero<p>🧵 Just wrote about that legendary 2015 Hacker News thread where everyone got emotional about BeOS 😭<br>The OS that was too beautiful for this world: pervasive multithreading, metadata filesystem, perfect multimedia... in the '90s!<br>But we got Windows because "it's already installed" 📼<br>Full nostalgic damage: <a href="https://www.desktoponfire.com/haiku_inc/782/the-great-illusion-when-we-believed-beos-would-save-the-world-and-maybe-it-was-right/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">desktoponfire.com/haiku_inc/78</span><span class="invisible">2/the-great-illusion-when-we-believed-beos-would-save-the-world-and-maybe-it-was-right/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/BeOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BeOS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/TechHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/90sTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>90sTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Nostalgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nostalgia</span></a></p>