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You make a good point, but I think it's clear that the Internet and HTTP will be here to stay for a long time. It's just a matter of creating something that add
by meowface 12y ago
You make a good point, but I think it's clear that the Internet and HTTP will be here to stay for a long time. It's just a matter of creating something that adds real value.
- VLM 12y agoCorrect. Note: US centric dates: My point being that starting up a railroad in 1850 was a great idea, not so good by 1900. Or there were about 150 startup automobile mfgrs around 1900, not quite so many by 1925. Starting up a telephone company in 1900, good idea, in 1950, not so good idea. We still have railroads and car mfgrs and telcos in 2014, they're just not realistic startup fields. Every other field of recent human activity has gone thru the same stages of startup success, startup failures/consolidations, oligopoly oscillating with semi-regulated public utility, sometimes a long term decline in the industry after that. Someday its economically inevitable that "Internet and HTTP" will not be the place to do startups. I don't think its today, but my grand kids are highly unlikely to be doing internet startups.