The tech industry is completely dependent on throwing away anything that is finally half-stable, so they can convince VCs to shovel out more cash to rebuild eve

The tech industry is completely dependent on throwing away anything that is finally half-stable, so they can convince VCs to shovel out more cash to rebuild everything in a new language, framework, system, protocol, app, etc. If you look at what we actually do with the web, it's the same thing we were doing 20 years ago. Click on links, look at pictures of cats, chat with your friends on message boards and instant messenger, send e-mail, buy the occasional thing online, read the news, play games. If you changed none of the software, the result would be the same, but we would have saved a couple trillion dollars (or, alternately, not caused people to fork out a couple trillion dollars). The only functional change today is much more streaming video, and instead of writing blogs, everyone's recording podcasts (which we had back then as "streaming audio" using IceCast).