The Great Internet Reset - Why I joined the open internet

Web2: Read-Write > Cue Web2 or the web as we know it today. It took over in the early 2000s. At its core, Web2 made space for everyone to become a content creator and consumer simultaneously - though not everyone actually makes money off of what they create. Users produce media on social networks, i.e. Facebook, who then is able to sell per... See more

"Now, that vision is fraying. The social fabric of the internet is built on very specific assumptions, many of which are giving way. Licklider envisioned the internet as a patchwork of decentralized networks, with no sense of how it would work when a handful of companies wrote most of its software and managed most of its traffic. Licklider conceive... See more

The web isn’t what it used to be. When the editors of Nature compared mycorrhizal fungi to a computer network, the web was still predominantly peer-to-peer, its users sharing their thoughts on personal home pages and homespun message-boards. Online advertising was in its infancy. But as the web has centralized, it has strayed further and further fr... See more