Comment by otabdeveloper4
20 hours ago
> Cultural changes take time. It took decades for the internet to move from nerdy curiosity to an essential part of everyone's life.
99% of people only ever use proprietary networks from FAANG corporations. That's not "the internet", that's an evolution of CompuServe and AOL.
We got TCP/IP and the "web-browser" as a standard UI toolkit stack out of it, but the idea of the world wide web is completely dead.
Shockingly rare how few realize this. It's a series of mega cities interconnected by ghost towns out here.