Today is a significant day in the history of the Internet. On 6 August 1991, exactly 32 years ago, the World Wide Web became publicly available. Its creator, the now internationally known Tim Berners-Lee, posted a short summary of the project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup and gave birth to a new technology which would fundamentally change the world as we knew it.
I often think how lucky I was to be in college when this dawned.
If a Time Machine gets invented should this guy be on the same list as baby hitler ti eliminate? Sure the guy wasn’t evil, but his invention has grown evil over time.
The internet isn’t evil, it helped propagate the age of information towards a global, permanently interconnected network. I’m not sure any invention impacted humanity as greatly as that since the transistor. With that new era, data became a new currency and some companies obviously take badly advantage of that, but I fail to see how the internet might be inherently evil. What motivated that opinion?
I’m with OP, the best thing humanity could do with the internet in its current state is turn that mother fucker off
