>>724778414
Imagine how this looks like today.
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>>106900688
>tied
died.
Anyway, the point is that so much of the old internet was organic and run by and for nerds, and anyone who wanted to get some utility out of the net had to not only be capable of using a computer, but would have to interact with those spaces to do it.
It's like when a corporation offers a low price on some product due to the fluke of high competition. They don't do it out of benevolence, they do it because they will literally go out of business if they charge a higher price.
Likewise, the general public is just like that corporation. They have a number of desires that they want their machines to fulfill, and perhaps at one time those desired happened to coincide with something colorful and nice, but as soon as a streamlined way of meeting their interests gets invented they just drop whatever they were doing before.
To them, the Internet is not some grand network of networks where people share ideas and information and create things and make friends. The Internet is a toaster. They pay a cost, like data or money or attention and in return their base impulses are satisfied, or they get simple utility like maps or messaging. Nothing matters other than the lowest common denominator end goal. They were never your friends.
That lawless information postal service is still there and so many people still use it in just that way, it just doesn't get any attention anymore because no one sees it as a frontier these days. The services built on top of it got integrated into society, details were abstracted away, and the general population conflates those services with the Internet itself, so they have no need to talk about it now.
>tied
died.
Anyway, the point is that so much of the old internet was organic and run by and for nerds, and anyone who wanted to get some utility out of the net had to not only be capable of using a computer, but would have to interact with those spaces to do it.
It's like when a corporation offers a low price on some product due to the fluke of high competition. They don't do it out of benevolence, they do it because they will literally go out of business if they charge a higher price.
Likewise, the general public is just like that corporation. They have a number of desires that they want their machines to fulfill, and perhaps at one time those desired happened to coincide with something colorful and nice, but as soon as a streamlined way of meeting their interests gets invented they just drop whatever they were doing before.
To them, the Internet is not some grand network of networks where people share ideas and information and create things and make friends. The Internet is a toaster. They pay a cost, like data or money or attention and in return their base impulses are satisfied, or they get simple utility like maps or messaging. Nothing matters other than the lowest common denominator end goal. They were never your friends.
That lawless information postal service is still there and so many people still use it in just that way, it just doesn't get any attention anymore because no one sees it as a frontier these days. The services built on top of it got integrated into society, details were abstracted away, and the general population conflates those services with the Internet itself, so they have no need to talk about it now.