1/ the history of the internet is a series of battles between proprietary services and open protocols
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2/ imagine if HTTP or SMTP were owned by a single company that could cut off access to developers
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3/ the world would have had far less innovation and wealth creation
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4/ in the 90s open protocols like HTTP and SMTP won out over closed services like AOL
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5/ Today, the situation is reversed, and closed services are winning for social networking, micromessaging, payments etc.
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6/ but eventually the pendulum will swing back as the closed services atrophy and entrepreneurs & developers go elsewhere.
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@cdixon (TimBL's book "Weaving the Web" makes it clear CERN wanted nothing to do with the web, until after it was a hit.) 6/
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