Jeff Johnson on Nostr: Many people today like to rewrite history and claim that retail stores used to be the ...

Many people today like to rewrite history and claim that retail stores used to be the only way to distribute software, which is totally false.

Even before the rise of software distributed directly to customers via the web, bypassing all intermediaries, there was a healthy market for mail-order software (and hardware!) distributed directly to customers and also bypassing all intermediaries.

https://technologizer.com/2024/01/20/the-inside-story-of-pc-magazine-pc-world-and-macworlds-origins-as-told-by-david-bunnell/