[Infowarrior] - The Web We Lost

[Richard Forno]

The Web We Lost

December 13, 2012

The tech industry and its press have treated the rise of billion-scale social networks and ubiquitous smartphone apps as an unadulterated win for regular people, a triumph of usability and empowerment. They seldom talk about what we've lost along the way in this transition, and I find that younger folks may not even know how the web used to be.

So here's a few glimpses of a web that's mostly faded away:

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http://dashes.com/anil/2012/12/the-web-we-lost.html

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