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Re:I invented the web. Here are three things we need to chan... by white-flame on Saturday March 11, 2017 @10:38PM (#13848800)
The web wasn't built on an economic foundation of ad revenue. The web was built on the economic foundation of both university-provided and personally/privately funded servers.

What ad revenue did was wildly expand the number of people trying to exploit the web for revenue, by generating sheer quantity regardless of content. I agree that that's a shaky foundation to base the web on.

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Re:I invented the web. Here are three things we need to chan... by matt4077 on Sunday March 12, 2017 @07:01AM (#13850184)
I don't think you can just throw out everything produced by professional newspapers as useless content.
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Re:I invented the web. Here are three things we need to chan... by sly010 on Sunday March 12, 2017 @12:10PM (#13851273)
Just 90% of it.
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