The web originally was way closer to anarchism and I really miss that. It was a cluster of self-organising communities, little to no intervention from the state, a lot was not profit driven. Same with IRC.

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colechristensen 2 hours ago | parent [-]

The web was invented at CERN and spread through universities and got taken up by nerds. It could not possibly have been more state sponsored.

	▲	boudin 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		And the Internet was state sponsored too, at the time though it was not even legal to create communication networks in a lot of countries. But that's the premises But what it gave birth to was a form of anarchy. One doesn't go against the other, the same way a political regime can change within a country.