A vantage point from a very long time ago: The big social media services are pining for the days of CompuServe and Prodigy.
A vantage point from a very long time ago: The big social media services are pining for the days of CompuServe and Prodigy. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodigy_(online_service) Old, pre-internet AOL is also in the same category. These are what I refer to as "walled garden" services, that existed up to and (for a short time) through the commericialization of the net in the early 1990's. They offered built-in private services for chat, news, forums, games, etc. As direct competitors, they had an interest in keeping their userbase coming back to just what they were offering, and how they offered it. They also fell by the wayside for cost-competitive (free) online services that offered broader and more interesting stuff. Anyway, we're circling back to this. Big companies like Meta have a vested interest in locking folks in and keeping them blind to alternatives. Bringing the fun back simply means offering something better by providing an unmet need. It worked before. Last time it was the humble web browser that broke their near-monopoly on computer-gazing eyeballs. Perhaps we need something new that's just as potent?
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there are tons of TLDs that are cheap I'm not even sure what you are offering after reading this, but cloud is an even harder sell becau...
> One can't expect that every driver package submission from every vendor is thoroughly vetted every time, this is a matter of trust and ...
Too expensive for a worse vehicle than the Model Y (with incentives, it was a >$20K difference).
Starlink only has 10 Million customers, too expensive for most countries already.
The U7 Lite only does 2x2 MIMO.
Iranians use VPNs simply because they want to access the internet.
> When you don't want the ads and privacy invasion, you don't visit the website.
A vantage point from a very long time ago: The big social media services are pining for the days of CompuServe and Prodigy.
A vantage point from a very long time ago: The big social media services are pining for the days of CompuServe and Prodigy.
A vantage point from a very long time ago: The big social media services are pining for the days of CompuServe and Prodigy. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodigy_(online_service) Old, pre-internet AOL is also in the same category. These are what I refer to as "walled garden" services, that existed up to and (for a short time) through the commericialization of the net in the early 1990's. They offered built-in private services for chat, news, forums, games, etc. As direct competitors, they had an interest in keeping their userbase coming back to just what they were offering, and how they offered it. They also fell by the wayside for cost-competitive (free) online services that offered broader and more interesting stuff. Anyway, we're circling back to this. Big companies like Meta have a vested interest in locking folks in and keeping them blind to alternatives. Bringing the fun back simply means offering something better by providing an unmet need. It worked before. Last time it was the humble web browser that broke their near-monopoly on computer-gazing eyeballs. Perhaps we need something new that's just as potent?
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