Chris@feddit.uk to internet funeral@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoI'm not ready for the Internetassets.oldbytes.spaceimagemessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up1538 cross-posted to: 2meirl4meirl@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1538imageI'm not ready for the Internetassets.oldbytes.spaceChris@feddit.uk to internet funeral@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square17fedilink cross-posted to: 2meirl4meirl@lemmy.ml
minus-squareAwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 year agoWe were ready for the internet. We were not ready for every person with a pulse being able to post to and read from the Internet. Web 1.0 was a beautiful uncharted frontier.
minus-squareRIPandTERRORlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoI believe this with all my heart. I wish the Internet had been able to evolve as WAN first for a few decades. Maybe then we might have been ready?
minus-squarebionicjoey@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoIsn’t that literally what happened with ARPANET?
… In truth, I wasn’t ready.
Nobody was
We were ready for the internet. We were not ready for every person with a pulse being able to post to and read from the Internet. Web 1.0 was a beautiful uncharted frontier.
I believe this with all my heart. I wish the Internet had been able to evolve as WAN first for a few decades. Maybe then we might have been ready?
Isn’t that literally what happened with ARPANET?