Everything old is new again: BrowserOS

ca. 1997: “Browsers will reduce Windows to an unimportant collection of slightly buggy device drivers” Marc Andreessen (attributed, source)

ca. 1998: Mozilla Foundation “spun off” from Netscape

ca. 1999: Netscape sold to AOL (source)

ca. 2007: “Hey, let’s make it, so, like, Windows is just, like, a bootloader. Or maybe even, like, boot the Linux kernel or something.” (source)