Re:The Cluetrain Manifesto (1999)
by digi_owl on Friday March 04, 2016 @08:33AM
(#11223567)
Not sure it can be.
The old systems where decentralized and used defined protocols by necessity.
This because you needed software at either end that understood each other over said protocol.
With higher bandwidth, more reliable connections, and the web, the protocols have become fluid, as one end is downloaded and updated each time someone types a url into a web browser.
In a sense we are back at the leased terminal era, only with prettier graphics.
I no longer fire up a usenet client, i go to reddit.com.
I no longer fire up a IRC client, i go to slack.com.
The old systems where decentralized and used defined protocols by necessity.
This because you needed software at either end that understood each other over said protocol.
With higher bandwidth, more reliable connections, and the web, the protocols have become fluid, as one end is downloaded and updated each time someone types a url into a web browser.
In a sense we are back at the leased terminal era, only with prettier graphics.
I no longer fire up a usenet client, i go to reddit.com.
I no longer fire up a IRC client, i go to slack.com.