How the Internet Became a Closed Shop

Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 21, 2012 @11:35AM from the al-gore-didn't-stick-around-to-defend-his-creation dept.

AcidAUS sends this quote from the Sydney Morning Herald: "A little over a decade ago, just before the masses discovered the digital universe, the internet was a borderless new frontier: a terra nullius to be populated by individuals, groups and programmers as they saw fit. There were few rules and no boundaries. Freedom and open standards, sharing information for the greater good was the ethos. Today, the open internet we once knew is fracturing into a series of gated communities or fiefdoms controlled by giants like Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon and to a lesser extent Microsoft. A billion-dollar battle conducted in walled cities where companies try to lock our consumption into their vision of the internet. It has left some lamenting the 'web we lost.'"

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The web we lost by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-21 11:39 · Score: 5, Funny

I miss you Geocities!
Woohoo 2nd reference to medieval rule in a month by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-21 11:52 · Score: 5, Funny

Maybe they should change the site to
slashandparrydot
ye Olde Slashdoth
Walled Home and Garden
Internostalgia
Get Thee Oft My Lawn
Its been almost 12 hours since the latest Windows 8 sucks submission.
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Re:Related Anil Dash Blogs and earlier /. discussi by QRDeNameland · 2012-12-21 12:07 · Score: 5, Funny

Speaking of the "lost web", we no longer see as many offbeat websites like this one ... HO-HO-HO! ;-)

My eyes...ze goggles, zey do nothing!!!!

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