Comment by 1vuio0pswjnm7
2 years ago
"In March 1989, Tim Berners-Lee wrote the initial proposal for the World Wide Web, envisioning it as a "universal linked information system" to help researchers share information."
Statement of Facts
Idea: Let's use this system to disseminate advertising.
Idea: Let's use this system to run code automatically on peoples' computers.
Idea: Let's use this system as a means for people to communicate with their family and friends over the internet by uploading their "private" messages to a third party's website.
Idea: ???
Universal linked information system --> universal internet surveillance system
Question
Is the web still suitable to help researchers share information if so-called "tech" companies intermediate access to all information and seek to commercialise all web use.
> Is the web still suitable to help researchers share information if so-called "tech" companies intermediate access to all information and seek to commercialise all web use.
Yes, plenty of researchers share information via the web.
There was some original vision for the web, and of course that vision has changed in the past 30 years.