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Dan Q

Some time in the last 25 years, ISPs stopped saying they made you "part of" the #Internet, just that they'd help you "connect to" the Internet.

Most people don't need a static IP, sure. But when ISPs stopped offering FTP and WWW hosting as a standard feature (shit though it often was), they became part of the tragic process by which the Internet became centralised, and commoditised, and corporate, and just generally watered-down.

The amount of effort to "put something online" didn't increase by a lot, but it increased by enough that millions probably missed-out on the opportunity to create their first #web #homepage.

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Dan Q · Part of the Internet, or connecting to the Internet?Some time in the last 20 years, ISPs stopped saying they made you "part of" the Internet, just that they'd help you "connect to" the Internet. Most people don't need a static IP, sure. But when ISPs stopped offering FTP and WWW hosting as a standard feature (shit though it often was), they became part of the tragic process by which the Internet became centralised, and commoditised, and corporate, and just generally watered-down. The amount of effort to "put something online" didn't increase by a lot, but it increased by enough that millions probably missed-out on the opportunity to create their first homepage.
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