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"Otherwise, we’ll be in danger of ending up in an neo-90s Internet, with walled gardens and pay walls all over the place. You already see this trend happening i
by joesmo 10y ago
"Otherwise, we’ll be in danger of ending up in an neo-90s Internet, with walled gardens and pay walls all over the place. You already see this trend happening in journalism."
The internet will never be less walled, more free, and more federated than it was in the 90's. With such a poor understanding of the internet and its history, even if he did make a compelling argument (he doesn't), it'd be hard to take seriously.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoYou're forgetting about AOL and Compuserve. The Internet itself was federated. Networking really wasn't.
- joesmo 10y agoI forgot them on purpose because he's talking about the Internet, not networking, not BBSs (which AOL and Compuserve were just big versions of). AOL and Compuserve eventually made themselves just another part of the Internet, but before that, they were really irrelevant in relation to the Internet's federation. In fact, other than AOL being an ISP and a gateway to the Internet for many, the actual AOL service was completely irrelevant once Internet connections came along.