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I don't care if it's the most popular website on the planet, it's still just a website in an era of websites. Social networks weren't even close to new when Fa
by gnaritas 16y ago
I don't care if it's the most popular website on the planet, it's still just a website in an era of websites. Social networks weren't even close to new when Facebook came out; computers in every home was absurd when Gates and Jobs decided to make it a reality. It's not at all comparable to the change they brought to the world.
Mark's a billionaire, no doubt, but he's just not in that league, not even close. The world before Facebook is hardly different than the world after it; the world before computers were in every home is vastly different than the world after it. This Facebook worship is absurd, if it disappeared tomorrow the world would move on and hardly miss a beat. If every Windows PC disappeared tomorrow the world would basically collapse, business across the globe would grind to a halt.
Linux is a platform, Windows is a platform, Facebook is a toy.
- ilovecomputers 16y agoWhat must a website achieve in order to be considered as influential as the creations made by (continuing the analogy) Bill Gates and Steve Jobs?
- gnaritas 16y agoWhen the world economy depends on a website the way it does on PC's, then someone can claim to be in that category. Frankly I don't think that'll happen. The next big earth shattering thing on the scale of the PC revolution probably won't be a website. Actually, the Internet itself was the next big revolution after PC's, and probably then the introduction of the web. What's next? Who knows!
- yters 16y ago> When the world economy depends on a website the way it does on PC's What do you call the internet?