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Tim Berners-Lee: Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter (medium.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] wise_pancake 39 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What are you talking about? The web was always about capitalism and centralization!

You would never want to run your own email server, or run your own blog. It’s good that the big corps systematically block you out so you as an individual have to use their services. Who wants privacy really? Sounds like criminal stuff, we just need to peek at your data to serve you better ads. Ignore law enforcement paying us for your data, nothing bad will come of that.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Tim’s intention with the web was information sharing. He wanted a way for academics to share their work with other academics. He identified a problem at his time at CERN, and proposed a solution.

Then corporations were quick on capitalizing on this idea.

[–] wise_pancake 34 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes sorry I was being sarcastic.

I think it’s a tragedy we’ve lost individual websites and services, and the modern web is dying.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I think it’s a tragedy we’ve lost individual websites and services

They felt so alive. Back then like a sun and now like a candle.

Sometimes in the Web Archive or some forgotten but still running amateur hosting, or in Neocities you can see those old pages, they feel like visiting someone's home, frozen in time since 2003.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

You would never want to run your own email server, or run your own blog.

There were many more email services than now, and not too expensive hosting for personal webpages was common.

Not erasing that for history, my irony detector is slow