alt Hacker News > The web took off all by itself because it had a clear value proposition for some use cases.
Sears was the OG Amazon. Imagine if Sears had seen it as the new digital catalog.
Blockbuster missed on streaming until it was too late.
Many, many legacy companies did not understand the web and did not understand the impact of the Internet to their business model.
And you think forcing blockbuster's software teams to use the Web would have changed that? You don't think they were using the web for all their corporate communications systems? I very much think they were, and getting blindsided by streaming had probably nothing to do with blockbuster's existing engineering teams not understanding the Internet. Their product teams didn't understand it, but they wouldn't be the ones being "forced to write webpages" either