The Internet is Designed Wrong
Way back around 1990 when I had a CompuServe account I noticed the Internet is designed wrong. I could not connect to anything Web related without an Internet Service Provider (ISP). As this was in the dial-up days CompuServe was the ISP.
In the 1980s I connected to various Bulletin Board Systems (BBSs) through a phone line. In a sense the phone company was the equivalent of an ISP.
These days not only is an ISP a mandatory gatekeeper, but search engines now control what people find.
Lately I notice commentaries and discussions about the demise of non commercial and personal web sites. The consensus blame is the way search engines are designed and controlled.
Advertising and commerce are keys to information not being lost by search engines.
I have seen suggestions about decentralizing this control by resurrecting technologies such as web rings. Perhaps we should return to BBSs.
This blog is not monetized externally. Other than donations I don’t know how I would finance this site outside my own pocket. I don’t mind the expense, but I would not mind breaking even so to speak. I detest advertisements, but I might be persuaded to adopt limited advertising as long as all ads are static, they are related strictly to content, and are self-hosted rather than hosted through a data mining and tracking content delivery network.
I hope something happens to bypass search engine control.
I hope something happens to eliminate ISPs too.
Posted: Category: Usability Tagged: General
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