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How the father of the World Wide Web plans to reclaim it from Facebook and Google
When the World Wide Web first took off in the mid 1990s, the dream wasn’t just big, it was distributed: Everyone would have their own home page, everyone would post their thoughts – they weren’t called “blogs” until 1999 – and everyone would own their own data, for there was no one around offering to own it for us. The web consisted of nodes joined by links, with no center.
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I hope this works.
I wonder why he didn't monetize it? I get the idealism. But, in the end, he knew other people would makes billions, why not get a piece of the pie?
I remember someone saying: If Berners-Lee had patented html he would have made a fortune. Someone else replied, if he had patented html it would never have taken off. And that's the point. It took off because it was free.
Fair enough.
How could this possibly go wrong?