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It would be fun to do a quick survey of books breathlessly laying out the future of the internet from 20 years ago. Looking back, the evolution of social media
by kingsuper20 6y ago
It would be fun to do a quick survey of books breathlessly laying out the future of the internet from 20 years ago.
Looking back, the evolution of social media/youtube was pretty obvious. Back then, not so much.
1) Begin with anything goes including illegal. Run at a loss, Grow baby!
2) Ads
3) Bitching from some important people causes some removal of the more flagrantly illegal stuff.
4) Employees and PR departments apply a POV to what is now close to a monopoly. Large scale censorship.
What makes the modern era interesting is the POV angle. I can't imagine Rockefeller's Standard Oil restricting sales to people with conflicting politics. Of course, there are people spending a lot of time each day on r/politics and what used to be r/thedonald shouting joyous insanity at each other...that's the modern pool of workers.