News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Vivaldi co-founder: Advertisers 'stole the internet from us'. Parent comment

Re:Vivaldi co-founder: Advertisers 'stole the internet from us' by jhoechtl on Sunday March 12, 2023 @09:19AM (#35119731)
> nearly everybody expects content to be free to the end user on the internet.

as it has been the first years of the internet?

I did pay back then ... with my taxes. Public funded Universities were large back bones of the internet. Then it all got privatized and we are in the sump were in right now.

The internet is a public good and should be financed accordingly.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Vivaldi co-founder: Advertisers 'stole the internet from us' by scarface74 on Sunday March 12, 2023 @10:10AM (#35120221)
Yeah I was on the internet back then. It was basically useless for decent content when I was in college in the mid 90s

For reference, my first paid work i did involving development was making modifications to a Mac/HyperCard based Gopher server.

[ Parent | on HN ]