https://dfarq.homeip.net/spyglass-a-web-browsing-pioneers-ipo/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=spyglass-a-web-browsing-pioneers-ipo David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:10:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://dfarq.homeip.net/spyglass-a-web-browsing-pioneers-ipo/#comment-57105 Fri, 27 Jun 2025 20:23:44 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=38654#comment-57105 OpenTV never used Spyglass in a set top box (this is the world I was in in those days). But Spyglass’ staff around the world were absorbed in to OpenTV and made huge contributions later. The digital TV world finally embraced HTML when broadband happened, at first with ADSL lines. Now HTML is used in many places (although the iteractivity as foreseen by OpenTV is not. See HbbTV for a comparison.

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