Sunday, February 12, 2006

Test Document

So this is what an online text editor looks like. I think that this is the future. We'll have a ton of completely inexpensive dumb terminals whose only basic functionality is to connect to the internet and load an operating system from a server. The necessary speed is almost here, and pretty soon all but some of the most intense functionality will be able to be loaded remotely, like this. It would be pretty easy to put OpenOffice on the internet, and then just have people load and use it from there. If people only stored on their hard drives the actual files they use (and even that might be unecessary), and loaded all of their programs remotely, then for the casual user, a labtop (what's the point in having a desktop computer if all you're doing is connecting to the internet?) could be brought down in price to $100 or less without having to sacrifice computer power.

Now, I'm going to invite Evan to join me on this document just to test that feature out. Enjoy Evan. I hope you used your gmail address to set up your account here 'cause that's where I'm sending this.

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