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World of Ends

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the it-starts-with-an-earthquake,-birds-and-snakes dept.

epeus writes "At World of Ends, Doc Searls and David Weinberger explain the End-to-End nature of the internet in terms so clear even your manager could understand them. 'The Internet isn't complicated. The Internet isn't a thing. It's an agreement. The Internet is stupid. Adding value to the Internet lowers its value.' and so forth."

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  1. World Ends by Slycee · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh God I missed the "of" at first.

    Heaven help us. I found out about Armageddon on slashdot.

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    1. Re:World Ends by nurightshu · · Score: 5, Funny

      Only subscribers would know about it -- by the time it hit the front page for the rest of us rabble, the nukes would already be here.

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      They that would sacrifice their .sig space for that cliched Franklin quote deserve neither.
    2. Re:World Ends by PD · · Score: 5, Funny

      They'd write this:

      "Nuclaer bombs' on thier weigh"

      And we'd all be complaining about spelling errors when the big one hits.

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      If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
  2. The Internet is stupid. by stratjakt · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, you're stupid, you big stupid!

    Signed,
    The Internet

    PS: I'm rubber you're glue

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    I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
  3. Excellent Article by MojoRilla · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This reminds me why the original MSN failed and Yahoo succeeded. Microsoft wanted to control the content providers (making them use its own proprietary tools), while yahoo used HTTP and HTML.

    Sure, absolute control might mean they can offer more features, but absolute control also means everyone can't play. The file format of Microsoft Word was closed, and so it is hard to write programs which understand it. Microsoft gets richer, but users can't get their own data. Finally, when Microsoft sees there is no other big driver to get users to upgrade, they open up their file formats.

    The internet succeeded because of its simplicity, and because of HTML and HTTP. Almost anyone can serve HTTP. And write some sort of HTML. The protocols are simple and well documented.