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diff --git a/open-source-insider-1803.txt b/open-source-insider-1803.txt index 780bd2b..d79e728 100644 --- a/open-source-insider-1803.txt +++ b/open-source-insider-1803.txt @@ -1,8 +1,10 @@ Where do we go from here? That's the question that's been on my mind lately, as I browse through Git repos looking for interesting projects, attempting to informally survey the state of open source and, closer to home, how open source might be able to fix the web. Because let's face it, the web today is about as interesting as the chatter of an encyclopedia salesman was a couple generations ago. +I've found I'm far from alone in thinking this. Time Berners Lee has sounded a similar alarm, + But something I find that today's brightest seem to miss is that the web wasn't always this way and doesn't have to be this way today. -The internet was once little more than some very strange, some might say primitive, pages connected together by links. In the very early days there was no searching, there was simply exploring. The further you went the more you found. Pages and sites spread by word of mouth. Eventually out of this beautiful primordial cesspool some structures began to emerge. There were things called "web rings" which were sites that had band ed together to help people find like minded pages, authors, enthusiasts, what have you. +The internet was once little more than some very strange, some might say primitive, pages connected together by links. In the very early days there was no searching, there was simply exploring. The further you went the more you found. Pages and sites spread by word of mouth. Eventually out of this beautiful primordial cesspool some structures began to emerge. There were things called "web rings" which were sites that had banded together to help people find like-minded pages, authors, enthusiasts, what have you. In these days the World Wide Web had yet to attract the attention of commerce. It was too unpredictable, scattered and lacking in any kind of discernible business model. This was the heyday of the independent creator. Suddenly mainstream media was unseated from its thrown by a thousand voices with a thousand different opinions. The notion of a shared cultural script was effectively chucked in the waste bin. Instead people were able to immerse themselves in millions of different streams of information, ideas, stories, and ways of living that had previously been difficult to discover or outright impossible. |