James Boyle in the Financial Times marks the 15th anniversary of the first web page. It’s behind the subscription firewall, but here’s his crucial point: “There are three things that we need to understand about the web. First, it is more amazing than we think. Second, the conjunction of technologies that made the web successful was extremely unlikely. Third, we probably would not create it, or any technology like it, today. In fact, we would be more likely to cripple it, or declare it illegal.”
And if anybody had set out to create it, it would have cost ten times as much and taken ten times as long to get to where it is now.
@ Pete … exactly the same what i think. the one and only effect is the time, where you MUST wait. but we in german say: “what long times goes, in the future are god :)”
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Markus