Chris@feddit.uk to internet funeral@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoI'm not ready for the Internetassets.oldbytes.spaceimagemessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up1541arrow-down11
arrow-up1540arrow-down1imageI'm not ready for the Internetassets.oldbytes.spaceChris@feddit.uk to internet funeral@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square17fedilink
minus-squareFranzia@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up42·2 years ago… In truth, I wasn’t ready.
minus-squareAnticorp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 years 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-squareRIPandTERROR@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years 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-up1·2 years 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?