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> I guess we can't have nice things on the Internet anymore Not since it left the larval stage and became "pay for play", no. Oh, well, those taxpayer-funded
by B1FF_PSUVM 4y ago
> I guess we can't have nice things on the Internet anymore
Not since it left the larval stage and became "pay for play", no.
Oh, well, those taxpayer-funded years were nice for those of us who were around.
- bcrosby95 4y agoI think I remember wondering, after the dotcom bust, if the whole web thing would actually take off. The reasoning I vaguely remember reading was that the internet required government subsidy to exist - at first directly, then in the form of universities, and the bust was a sign that it couldn't exist without one. I don't remember how prevalent the view was at the time though. Obviously it turned out to be wrong.