"Netscape's legendary IPO in 1995 launched the web in the mind of the public. That jumpstart happened not much more than 2,000 days ago. In the 2,000 days since then, we have collectively created more than 3 billion public web pages. We've established twenty million web sites. Each year we send about 3.5 trillion email messages. If we could return back time a mere 6 years ago and ask anyone, even a geek, whether we could create 3 billion interactive, graphically rich, hyperlinked text pages on every subject known to humans, they would have frankly told you it was impossible. I would have told you it was impossible. Send 3 trillion emails? Where is the time even to push the send button? Who is going to pay for the creation of 3 billion web pages, each one which must be designed and coded and hosted? The economics of this don't work out. In 2,000 days? It's impossible. Yet, here at the end of a very bad year, this web is alive and still growing. It looks like a miracle.
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Why don't we see this miracle? ..." (Kevin Kelly - The Web Runs on Love, not greed)
I don't understand what is going to happen if we would see internet as a miracle. Kevin Kelly is talking as if seeing this miracle is a very useful thing to understand "something". I think it wouldn't bring anything.
4 Mayıs 2009 Pazartesi
3 Mayıs 2009 Pazar
internet freedom
There is a website which was made in order to fight for net neutrality and internet freedom. I'm not sure if they are really funny or not, however I like the way of expressing their thoughts.
wearetheweb
I wonder if Kevin Kelly watched their videos, did he laugh? When you read about someone and read his/her writings, to keep your mind away from unnecessary curiosities about that person can be really hard.
Kevin Kelly has a famous tough article called wearetheweb. Isn't it a little related to this "highly cheerful" website?
wearetheweb
I wonder if Kevin Kelly watched their videos, did he laugh? When you read about someone and read his/her writings, to keep your mind away from unnecessary curiosities about that person can be really hard.
Kevin Kelly has a famous tough article called wearetheweb. Isn't it a little related to this "highly cheerful" website?
are we the web?
Positive ideas from Kevin Kelly about the evolution of the technology and internet make me feel insufficient instead of making me motivate. Because Kelly presents the limitless form of the web and the opportunities that web gives us impressively. When I see the width of the web once again, I feel too small to effect this world. I guess Kelly tries to make people the exact opposite of my situation, however for "the third culture" people (which he describes in here), web is not something that is amazing, it is something like food or sleep. I believe the reason of my weak motivation is my addiction to the web. The experiences that are waiting for to be experienced in the web keep me away from an active contribution. People can live in internet without an afford to share, contribute, improve or add something, they can live in internet only with "using". Maybe this point is missed by Kevin Kelly or he doesn't think that third culture poeple are lazy, but we are lazy... Anyway, thanks to novelty form of web, my motivation can increase easily. sometimes.
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