The Death of the Web (2024)
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The Death of the Web (2024)
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#2Governments did this.
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#3Governments did this.
Corporate greed did this.
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#5Once something becomes about the money, it's going to be about the money.
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#6Boiling take: Myspace doesn't get enough historical heat for walling the blogosphere while simultaneously Eternal-Septembering it.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Corporate greed did this.
They both did, but governments enabled corporations to do it.
How would government realistically preserve a (in hindsight) fragile cultural phenomenon? OTOH a ~difficult mandatory PC/internet operator's license might have done it.
Now that reminds of the weird Internetführerschein ("internet driver's license") courses for nontechnical folk in Germany. Though these were entirely optional and so not cool.
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#8HN hug of death - https://archive.is/ylzrL