alt Hacker News> The whole web ecosystem was first run by VC money and everything was great until every corner was taken,
Categorically untrue and weird revisionism. Basically the opposite of what actually happened.
> The whole web ecosystem was first run by VC money and everything was great until every corner was taken,
Categorically untrue and weird revisionism. Basically the opposite of what actually happened.
I agree with the untrue and revisionism bit, but I disagree with it being the opposite of what happened.
People were trying to figure out how to make money off of the Internet from the early days of the Internet being publicly accessible (rather than a tool used by academic and military institutions). It can be attributed to the downfall of Gopher. It can be attributed to the rise of Netscape and Internet Explorer. While the early web was nowhere near as commercial as it is today, we quickly saw the development of search engines and (ad supported) hosting services that were. By the time 2000's hit, VC money was very much starting to drive the game. In the minds of most people, the Internet was only 5 to 10 years old at that point. (The actual Internet may be much older, but few people took notice of it until the mid-1990's.)