Auerbach on Internet Cruft

Captain Beefheart writes "Karl Auerbach has a story on CircleID in which he declares '...Between spam, anti-spam blacklists, rogue packets, never-forgetting search engines, viruses, old machines, bad regulatory bodies, and bad implementations, I fear that the open Internet is going to die sooner than I would have expected.' The Balkanization of the 'Net appears to be upon us."

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Call the wambulance! WAAAH!

[SunPin]

This dude must be new to the whole concept of the Internet. Either that or a woefully pessimistic bastard. Maybe he's connected to angry Prodigy clones that never got over their banishment from the market. Nobody is going back to proprietary online services ever.