Web No Longer Eclectic?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday August 26, 2001 @08:10AM from the marching-in-lockstep dept.

khog writes: "The Sunday New York Times had a front-page article entitled, "Exploration of World Wide Web Tilts From Eclectic to Mundane." The article says that "[t]he Web was supposed to subvert corporate domination of culture by giving a global soapbox -- or printing press, or television station -- to anyone with a computer and a modem" and takes off from there. Was the Web ever "supposed to be" anything, much less a subversion of "corporate domination of culture?" Isn't the reduction of idle surfing and the increase of a "more direct, predetermined approach to the Web" just a "reflection" of an educated user base that knows what it wants?"

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Speaking out of the other corner of their mouth... by TroyFoley · 2001-08-26 08:18 · Score: 0, Troll

Wasn't it our corporate dominated culture that originally perpetuated the notion that the web was this wonderful land of freedom and thought and pure idea in order to suck more real money out of our pockets and into AOL's bank account?

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