This month marks the 15th anniversary of the creation of the first web page. James Boyle provides an interesting perspective on what a remarkable thing we’ve got in the Internet.
[T]here are three things that we need to understand about the web. First, it is more amazing than we think. Second, the conjunction of technologies that made the web successful was extremely unlikely. Third, we probably would not create it, or any technology like it, today. In fact, we would be more likely to cripple it, or declare it illegal.
It’s worth a read.
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Granted, the web provides a place for stuff like this, but, heck, it provides a place for Amazon, for Google Maps, for the Storyball, for Dave Does the Blog, for practiically anything. The enhancement in the ability to express, to be heard, and to find out is so revolutionary, it takes a few moments of deliberate thinking to consider how our world has changed.