> In the pre-monetized web, yes the tech guys made things right without money extracted from the web.
It was extracted from tuition paid by undergraduate students and taxes paid by taxpayers.
And that money all eventually came from dirty capitalism.
It was extracted from tuition paid by undergraduate students and taxes paid by taxpayers.
And that money all eventually came from dirty capitalism.
And yes, it cost a lot of money to get online and/or host data back then, which was subsidized by piggybacking corporate and university internet presence. Nowadays it's dirt cheap to personally host & access tons of content, so there's even less need to monetize.