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Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jan-2023 12:57:28 JST Adrian Cochrane

How the Internet was Stolen - Then & Now: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=oLLxpAZzy0s (YouTube via Invidious)
Really impressed with how well they pulled together this recent history!
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1. How the Internet was Stolen
  
  I look at the history of the internet, from ARPANET & NSFNET, through privatization, to Tim-Berners Lee, Yahoo, Netscape, Google, eBay, and Facebook, examining Microsoft's antitrust court case and their battle against Open Source and Free Software, Bill Gate's Open Letter to Hobbyists and the leaked Halloween Documents. Then we take a look at the emergence of Surveillance Capitalism, and how platforms like AirBnb & Uber coopt the idea of the community and lobby politicians. Finally, we take a look at some alternatives. Thank you to @WereInHell @zoe_bee @Tom_Nicholas @EpochPhilosophy @RadicalReviewer @unlearningeconomics9021 @PoliticalPhilosophyChannel for their help with this video. Bibliography: https://lewwaller.com/how-the-internet-was-stolen/ Chapters: 00:00 – Introduction to the History of the Internet 04:06 – Building the Net 20:37 – The Browser Wars (Microsoft vs the United States) 44:35 – The Californian Ideology (eBay, Yahoo, Google and the Libertarian Mind) 01:07:26 – The Raiding of Privacy (Surveillance Capitalism) 01:18:05 – Facebook 01:26:07 – The Theft of the Community (Airbnb & Uber) 01:40:31 – No Place (Utopian Dreams) 01:49:38 – Open Source vs Microsoft 01:59:24 – Conclusion: Politics, Policy, and Alternatives Then & Now is FAN-FUNDED! Support me on Patreon and pledge as little as $1 per video: http://patreon.com/user?u=3517018 Or send me a one-off tip of any amount and help me make more videos: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=JJ76W4CZ2A8J2 Buy on Amazon through this link to support the channel: https://amzn.to/2ykJe6L Follow me on: Facebook: http://fb.me/thethenandnow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thethenandnow/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/lewlewwaller Subscribe to the podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/then-now-philosophy-history-politics/id1499254204 https://open.spotify.com/show/1Khac2ih0UYUtuIJEWL47z Credits: Babbage Engine video - Seth Ladd, CC BY 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Pierre Omydar photo - Joi 15:42, 2 August 2007 (UTC), CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Yahoo Sign, Beraldo Leal from Natal / RN, Brazil, CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Page & Brinn photo, Ehud Kenan, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Yahoo sign photograph, Sebastian Bergmann, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Napster Screenshot, Njahnke, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Sean Fanning, Joi Ito, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Metallica photo, Kreepin Deth, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Bill Gates portrait, By Kuhlmann /MSC - https://securityconference.org/en/medialibrary/asset/bill-gates-1523-18-02-2017/, CC BY 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=100184908 Richard Stallman Photograph, Sam Williams, CC BY-SA 3.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/, via Wikimedia Commons GNU Manifesto, Raghavendra Kamath, CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Linus Torvalds photo, Unknown photographer who sold rights to the picture to linuxmag.com, CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/, via Wikimedia Commons Wikipedia globe, Slashme, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Wikimania, Rory O'Connor, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Bill Gates photograph, Kees de Vos from The Hague, The Netherlands, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Mark Andreessen photo, JD Lasica, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons AOL disc, Thiago A. from Brazil, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Ebay photo, Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- グレェ「grey」 (byterhymer@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jan-2023 14:31:06 JST グレェ「grey」
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  @alcinnz I'm only about 25 minutes in, but I am really unimpressed with how much of the earlier history they are botching, entirely.
  Zero mention of NLS (oNLine System) or Doug Engelbart.
  Erroneously attributing the invention of BASIC to Bill Gates (invented by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz > a decade before Microsoft even existed).
  Even stating that Microsoft claimed they invented the mouse? o.O
  Sorry, that was Bill English.
  Hopefully it improves? So far, it isn't.
  
  In conversation Sunday, 01-Jan-2023 14:31:06 JST permalink
- Harish Pillay (harishpillay@floss.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Jan-2023 14:06:36 JST Harish Pillay
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  @byterhymer @alcinnz I'd agree. There are parts that are really inaccurate (about FLOSS for example), and actual factual errors. Oh well.
  
  In conversation Monday, 02-Jan-2023 14:06:36 JST permalink
- Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Jan-2023 14:07:08 JST Adrian Cochrane
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  @harishpillay @byterhymer I'd give a pass about the FLOSS stuff since our terminology is confusing...
  
  In conversation Monday, 02-Jan-2023 14:07:08 JST permalink
- Harish Pillay (harishpillay@floss.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Jan-2023 15:28:15 JST Harish Pillay
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  @alcinnz @byterhymer I must thank you for the work you put in to create the video. It is a labour of love in many ways and an important resource. Perhaps you could post erratas somewhere so that it won't be overlooked.
  
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- Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Jan-2023 15:29:09 JST Adrian Cochrane
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  @harishpillay @byterhymer Its not my video, I just appreciated it & posted a link.
  
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- Harish Pillay (harishpillay@floss.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Jan-2023 15:32:59 JST Harish Pillay
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  @alcinnz fair enough.
  For some additional historical information, this playlist "IEEE Computing Conversations" would be helpful. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4660FB7F523B1770
  In conversation Monday, 02-Jan-2023 15:32:59 JST permalink
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