Comment by bombcar

15 hours ago

IIRC up until very recently the screening process was "they report that they're good boys."

The screening process has been more involved in that since around the late 2000's. I wouldn't call 20 years "very recently," especially in the context of the history of the web.

  • circa 2007 I was looking over a college textbook on computer networking that I saw at a family member's house. It still said "While networks are inherently unreliable, it's not a stretch to imagine a future where one can stream video on-demand over a WAN like the Internet"