The machine was a marvel of vision and a monument to its creator’s ego. Jobs’s stubbornness was baked into its very circuits. No cooling fan, because he hated the noise — leading to the nickname “the beige toaster,” as it constantly overheated. No hard drive. Not enough memory to run Word and Excel.

It’s a question worth asking in consideration of the FTC’s lawsuit against Meta, one that accuses it of having acquired monopoly dominance of the social media market through its past acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp.