“We briefly had a library of alexandria and then fed it into a paper shredder so advertisers could sell a random mash of pulp back to us at a premium.”

[raganwald@social.bau-ha.us]

“We briefly had a library of alexandria and then fed it into a paper shredder so advertisers could sell a random mash of pulp back to us at a premium.”

@ilovecomputers

[bmac@jawns.club]

@raganwald @ilovecomputers

I'm coming to believe that the Internet as we knew it from say 1990 to 2010 was the anomaly. Nothing that powerful or that useful can survive as a public good in a capitalist system.

[ilovecomputers@xoxo.zone]

@bmac @raganwald it was the era that gave us Wikipedia, Mozilla, and the Internet Archive. There definitely was a trend of philanthropy amongst the Silicon Valley capitalists that’s just not there anymore