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The old Internet also had a relatively technical barrier to entry, which automatically weeded out large chunks of population. When the friction is brought down
by yazzku 2y ago
The old Internet also had a relatively technical barrier to entry, which automatically weeded out large chunks of population. When the friction is brought down to zero and everyone goes in, the MBAs twiddle their fingers thinking how to exploit every last corner for profit and the whole thing goes to hell. Result: the current Internet. Wait until "AI" enters the picture.
- Clubber 2y ago>The old Internet also had a relatively technical barrier to entry Perhaps very briefly. Once it went public AOL opened it up to anybody in a pretty short amount of time. >the MBAs twiddle their fingers thinking how to exploit every last corner for profit and the whole thing goes to hell. Result: the current Internet. I think ad blockers really did it in; the web anyway. Every year, the ad networks kept getting increasingly intrusive because of that greed and a technical solution was found and widely adopted. Unfortunately, that removed quite a bit of funding/incentive for anyone running websites.