Leonard Kleinrock on what went wrong with the internet
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Re: Leonard Kleinrock on what went wrong with the internet
#2Four popups and overlays in 15 seconds. What a trash website.
Re: Leonard Kleinrock on what went wrong with the internet
#3Four popups and overlays in 15 seconds. What a trash website.
Ironic, given the subject of the article.
Re: Leonard Kleinrock on what went wrong with the internet
#4Four popups and overlays in 15 seconds. What a trash website.
At least you could see the popups. I default open things in an incognito window, and it won't even load if you're in incognito, just shows you a big banner shaming you for using incognito mode and asking you to log in.
It'd be kinda cool if HN had reddit-like flairs for stories so you could tag them as "no-incognito" or "soft-paywall" so you knew what not to bother clicking on.
Re: Leonard Kleinrock on what went wrong with the internet
#5Four popups and overlays in 15 seconds. What a trash website.
Site appears to work perfectly with JS disabled entirely (IMO, as the web should be).
Re: Leonard Kleinrock on what went wrong with the internet
#6"You should be able to clearly articulate your preferred privacy policy and reject websites that don’t meet your standards."
It occurs to me that this could be a rough description of ad blocking extensions, although rather like the Aldous Huxley quote about means determining ends, ad blockers are the result of an adversarial relationship rather than a consensual one.
Re: Leonard Kleinrock on what went wrong with the internet
#7It didn't go wrong. It went very well.
It didn't turn into the idealized vision that the author apparently had for it, but that's not unusual.
Re: Leonard Kleinrock on what went wrong with the internet
#8It feels like author is depressed. It's a bit sad to read. He manages to pull so much negativity out of the things that are generally have a net-positive impact, things that drive the progress, that are progress.
Disappointing article. I don't need this negativity in my life.
Re: Leonard Kleinrock on what went wrong with the internet
#9It feels like author is depressed. It's a bit sad to read. He manages to pull so much negativity out of the things that are generally have a net-positive impact, things that drive the progress, that are progress. Disappointing article. I don't need this negativity in my life.
Almost every big positive change in society is a result of people feeling negative about the status quo.
This reminds me of Steven Pinker who goes around saying, please stop whining; some/many/most/all things are better than they used to be! while somehow neglecting the fact that to the degree things are better, they usually are because people didn't stop whining.
Re: Leonard Kleinrock on what went wrong with the internet
#10How did it go so wrong - the same way it did go wrong with many other tools - people used them to better themselves at the cost of others.
> We could try to push the internet back toward its ethical roots. However, it would be a complex challenge requiring a joint effort by interested parties — which means pretty much everyone.
That "everyone" also includes bad actors.