Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: 'The system is failing'

Re:Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: 'The system is ... by wetpaws on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @01:18PM (#16577759)

If we would think in terms of regular, non tech-savvy consumers, it is true, they are pretty much synonyms of the internet. Google is especially ubiquitous in this regard and reminds me a Microsoft in pre-firefox age.

If we think of it, the amount of lockdown to google is scary - it's browser, search, mail, navigation, advertisement, all photos and documents and now with AMP to a certain degree the web content itself.

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: 'The system is ... by mseebach on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @01:42PM (#16578027)

If you ask them to describe the world with their own vocabularies, then yes, those things are "the internet". But if you take away the rest of the internet, these users will absolutely notice, even if they might struggle to correctly articulate what happened.

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