alt Hacker News> The whole web ecosystem was first run by VC money
Huh? Nexus was funded by CERN.
Newsgrounds was never investor funded.
Yahoo! Directory was just two guys, and you paid to be listed. There were no investors involved.
WebCrawler was a university project. Altavista was a research project.
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mrtksn • yesterday at 10:51 AM
That was ine inception age when very few people were online, its not the stage of mass adoption. The mass adoption starts with the dot.com era with mass infrastructure build up.
But sure, if you think that we should start counting from these years you can do that and add a "public funded" era at the beginning.
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tietjens • yesterday at 11:26 AM
I take your point, but I think the comment was referring to Web 2.0.
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People seem to forget the non-commercial web ever existed.