The lasting influence of Netscape Time(thehistoryoftheweb.com) |
The lasting influence of Netscape Time(thehistoryoftheweb.com) |
We're at the beginning of an industry and who knows where that industry's going to go? This could all turn into television again. It could be controlled by a small number of companies who decide what we see and hear. And there's a lot of precedent for that.
While you may say it's not television because we have content creators now, most of the mainstream consumption is on closed platforms owned by companies with the highest valuations ever seen in history.
Side note: It's great to see Jamie's nightclub has become a success as well becoming more of a live music venue which is even more impressive in the face of Live Nation buying every venue in sight.
The DNA Lounge compound consists of five rooms, two stages, four dance floors with independent sound systems, seven full bars, plus our attached full-service pizza restaurant and cafe.
He's made it abundantly clear that while he's rich, he doesn't have infinite money.
Sound, sidewalks, toilets, pizza, overreach, the story is full of tragedy and perseverance.
What's the difference? There are hundreds of millions of people watching a relatively small number of wealthy creators who need to cater to advertisers and follow strict platform rules or else they get the boot. We even have celebrity gossip and controversies surrounding them.
We've recreated the exact thing we've been fighting.
If you've read his blog, it is always on the verge of catastrophe.
IIRC, "Bad Attitude" was eventually terminated, then a private group known as "Really Bad Attitude" was launched to a chosen few.
Microsoft managed to obtain all of these discussion histories in the discovery phase of its various lawsuits.
It's fair to say he's not interested in having his views known to readers here.
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Also, if you're intrigued by fly-on-the-wall documentaries about historical tech efforts, check out: https://www.generalmagicthemovie.com/
> This is bad.
> What's that?
> Um, well, so I connected to the, uh... The machine that- that controls the FTP push, is like, not answering.
Spoiler: he had the wrong hostname.
> Mm... oh. Duh!
Not sure what was left of the older (pre-open source) Netscape code in Firefox 1.0.
Looking back, it was a bit reminiscent of the bitcoin / ai bubbles, where every company desperately rushes to jump on the bandwagon.
Could we at least look at these tragedies honestly and openly, and learn something from them.
