I look at the history of the internet, from ARPANET & NSFNET, through privatization, to Tim-Berners Lee, Yahoo, Netscape, Google, eBay, and Facebook, examining Microsoft’s antitrust court case and their battle against Open Source and Free Software, Bill Gate’s Open Letter to Hobbyists and the leaked Halloween Documents. Then we take a look at the emergence of Surveillance Capitalism, and how platforms like AirBnb & Uber coopt the idea of the community and lobby politicians. Finally, we take a look at some alternatives.
Thank you to @WereInHell @zoe_bee @Tom_Nicholas @epochphilosophy @RadicalReviewer @unlearningeconomics9021 @PoliticalPhilosophyChannel for their help with this video.
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Chapters:
00:00 – Introduction to the History of the Internet
04:06 – Building the Net
20:37 – The Browser Wars (Microsoft vs the United States)
44:35 – The Californian Ideology (eBay, Yahoo, Google and the Libertarian Mind)
01:07:26 – The Raiding of Privacy (Surveillance Capitalism)
01:18:05 – Facebook
01:26:07 – The Theft of the Community (Airbnb & Uber)
01:40:31 – No Place (Utopian Dreams)
01:49:38 – Open Source vs Microsoft
01:59:24 – Conclusion: Politics, Policy, and Alternatives
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Credits:
Babbage Engine video - Seth Ladd, CC BY 3.0, , via Wikimedia Commons
Pierre Omydar photo - Joi 15:42, 2 August 2007 (UTC), CC BY 2.0, , via Wikimedia Commons
Yahoo Sign, Beraldo Leal from Natal / RN, Brazil, CC BY 2.0, , via Wikimedia Commons
Page & Brinn photo, Ehud Kenan, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Yahoo sign photograph, Sebastian Bergmann, CC BY-SA 2.0, , via Wikimedia Commons
Napster Screenshot, Njahnke, CC BY-SA 4.0, , via Wikimedia Commons
Sean Fanning, Joi Ito, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Metallica photo, Kreepin Deth, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Bill Gates portrait, By Kuhlmann /MSC - , CC BY 3.0 de,
Richard Stallman Photograph, Sam Williams, CC BY-SA 3.0, , via Wikimedia Commons
GNU Manifesto, Raghavendra Kamath, CC BY 4.0, , via Wikimedia Commons
Linus Torvalds photo, Unknown photographer who sold rights to the picture to , CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Wikipedia globe, Slashme, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Wikimania, Rory O’Connor, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Bill Gates photograph, Kees de Vos from The Hague, The Netherlands, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Mark Andreessen photo, JD Lasica, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
AOL disc, Thiago A. from Brazil, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Ebay photo, Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
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