Talk:Commercialization of the Internet

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It appears this article, which covers historical events, is being used to promote forward-looking predictions by those who want to create a teleology leading from Tim Berners-Lee's WWW to NFTs everywhere. This includes the insistence that no one saw commercial potential of any kind in the Internet in 1994. This claim is absurd to those who were using the Internet at the time. Those who were not, and have been misled by bedtime stories, may refer to

The commercialized internet may be the most dominant force shaping the world right now and Wikipedia really should do better with its article on it. 2601:602:C800:DA80:6598:ED1B:74A2:D0A (talk) 17:29, 4 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]