1998 post about Netscape quoting Marca saying the browser would become an OS.

See also: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marc_Andreessen

"Netscape will soon reduce Windows to a poorly debugged set of device drivers"

That was the time when Java was the new thing; when the "network computer" (running a Java VM+ Netscape browser) was going to replace the Windows PC any day now. Oh well...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Computer

Google Chrome is a browser, not an operating system. Linux is the operating system. No matter how much people want to think the browser is one, it doesn't change the facts. It is as much an operating system as wifi is. The browser hosts remote apps and provides a runtime environment, which to the non computer science trained out there might appear to be an operating system, but its still not. Chrome does not, for example, implement create_process (fork). Linux does. Chrome, uses fork, its an , or maybe another way to think of the browser is as a UI VM, much like the JVM run s bytecode, the browser runs 'WebCode'.

The failure of the DOJ to enforce anti-trust laws during the era of 'private enterprise can do no wrong' held the internet back 10 years.

They got part of it right. Google is making an operating system, but from my understanding, it is no longer solely a browser.