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Pretty sure the "communist internet" is just the TCP/UDP/IP suite. You can send or receive whatever stream of bytes to whomever you want for close to nothing (p
by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Pretty sure the "communist internet" is just the TCP/UDP/IP suite. You can send or receive whatever stream of bytes to whomever you want for close to nothing (price of electricity/connectivity). Can't get more "communist", communal, if you will, than that. Also, by definition, a "communist internet" can have no log in, it's either something we have in our commons [1] or not.
Now if, for example, Hacker News would ask me to pay 0.001 USD to receive this specific stream of bytes, I guess that would be "capitalist internet". Perhaps it would be a good idea, who knows, I'd sure like to be paid for putting content out there for large language models to sweep in.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons#System_archetype https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons#System_...
- rikroots 3y agoMy immediate thought was NNTP, on which they built Usenet ... or so I thought. I checked on Wikipedia before pressing the `reply` button and discovered that Usenet started in 1980 and originally ran over something called UUCP - which was also used for early email systems? ... This is why I love Wikipedia. It teaches me new things every day.