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[[One character is talking to another.]]
Character: Installing things has gotten so fast and painless.
Character: Why not skip it entirely, and make a phone that has every app "installed" already and just downloads and runs them on the fly?
I felt pretty clever until I realized I'd invented webpages.
{{Title text: But still, my scheme for creating and saving user config files and data locally to preserve them across reinstalls might be useful for--wait, that's cookies.}}
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