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But it was kind of a gold rush, race-to-first? I mean look at the Web today using TCP, IPv4, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, with companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon.
by armchairhacker 5y ago
But it was kind of a gold rush, race-to-first?
I mean look at the Web today using TCP, IPv4, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, with companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon. If the internet was created with what we know now it would look much different. You will never be able to create a technology or company so flawed like that today.
- sbarre 5y agoI don't think most of us knew what the Internet would look like in 25 years. My guess back then was way more regulation, as opposed to the commercial monopolies we have today, but what did I know, I was barely in my 20s.. All the stuff you listed above (except for HTML/CSS/JS) already existed and was not invented in the 90s, and was already the foundation of the Internet at that point. There was not much chance of changing or disrupting those things. Also hindsight is 20/20 of course. Easy to look back two decades and say "what were they thinking?" etc..