1/ the history of the internet is a series of battles between proprietary services and open protocols
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6/ but eventually the pendulum will swing back as the closed services atrophy and entrepreneurs & developers go elsewhere.
@cdixon Radical new protocols (e.g. Bitcoin, Bittorrent, HTTP) tend to come from loners with little institutional support. 4/
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@cdixon May have occurred because DARPA "funded people not projects" around that time, as Alan Kay memorably put it. 8/Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@cdixon TCP/IP is an interesting exception to the "loners with little inst. support" rule. 7/Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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