Comment on Tim Berners-Lee: Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 8 months agoWhat are you talking about? The web was always about capitalism and centralization!
You would never want to run your own email server, or run your own blog. It’s good that the big corps systematically block you out so you as an individual have to use their services. Who wants privacy really? Sounds like criminal stuff, we just need to peek at your data to serve you better ads. Ignore law enforcement paying us for your data, nothing bad will come of that.
magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 8 months ago
Tim’s intention with the web was information sharing. He wanted a way for academics to share their work with other academics. He identified a problem at his time at CERN, and proposed a solution.
Then corporations were quick on capitalizing on this idea.
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Yes sorry I was being sarcastic.
I think it’s a tragedy we’ve lost individual websites and services, and the modern web is dying.