When Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web...
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For later
bfl
Why would anyone in their right mind want anything to do with Google? Open-source, or otherwise?
marked for when I have time
So I read the first half; the sales pitch and then some of the technical explanation, then I started skimming past the authoring/editing bit.
So basically we have a bit torrent version of the internet (traditional internet; webpages/markup/content) with seeds instead of servers. You’re content will be available as long as someone is seeding it.
I can see a lot of content being lost this way.
Probably a good thing though. Kinda like darwinism for content. Maybe some good stuff will get lost, but most likely the unfit will not survive.
I can also see this being treated as ‘dark web’.
There will be a lot of cries about illegal content. Stolen and protected content, illicit content, fringe content, etc. I’m sure some of it will be valid, but I am also sure that some will be the old guard attacking the new threat to their model.
I also suspect that this will be very exploitable by at least two groups; those who use bots and other systems to push a false or slanted narrative, and also those who find a way to built p2p sub networks based on interests, some for good, some not so much... which may be subjective value judgements, but not all will treat it that way
He certainly sets the internet up to be a monster of some sort lurking in a dark, dank forest. Brrrr.
But after reading the cure, I feel like the kid home from kindergarten asked to describe his day.
“It was exhausting. All day long it was ‘share, share, share.’”
I find this concept very interesting because it takes the power away from the big ISPs. But does that mean if something like FR went to this...everyone one of us could be hosting the entire FR website? It appears that would be a bit much. So what is the real application of this? Sharing my own facebook/twitter type info? Posting memes and family photos? If so that is great too...i’d rather see Facebook fail more than ISPs.
“Many of the web’s founders now realize that they didn’t sign up for a web dominated by a few giant corporations relying on collecting massive amounts of data on its users to sell to advertisers.”
complete nonsense. there are hundreds of millions of websites hosted by hundreds of thousands of servers owned by thousands of hosting companies ... anyone can host their own website if they’re technically adept enough to do so ...
right now, i test my websites locally with my own internal domain “.here” short-circuited into my own local WAMP server, and could convert that to .com and point my domain resolvers to my own fixed IP number if i wanted to go to the trouble of keeping a server live 24x7x365 ...
most of that information collected by those big giant corporations is VOLUNTARILY given up by a bunch of very foolish people who’ve decided what a great idea it is to tell facebook and the like about every minute facet of their dreary, boring and nearly non-existent lives ...
ping
Democrat War Rooms will attack it and swing it left...
Was Dr. Bunsen Honeydew involved?
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