[Nursie]

That article reads like one long logical fallacy and a whole heap of handwaving.

It contrasts cathedral style development practices against blockchain, neatly attributing open-source, collaborative development solely to blockchain technologies.

The very first section makes no sense - in the first era of the internet, decentralised protocols allowed companies like yahoo and google to win out while centralised entities like AOL diminished? So presumably AOL rose to prominence in era zero? And everything before that was in era negative one?

There are so many bizarre, unevidenced claims thrown in... This is pure evangelism.

[woodandsteel]

> So presumably AOL rose to prominence in era zero?

Yes, it rose to prominence in the bbs era that preceded the big public success of the WWW.

[Nursie]

Internet, not web.

Sure, it rose to prominence before the likes of google, but not really in the first era of the internet. While it may well have preceded the 'big public success' of the world wide web, the internet had arguably already had a few different eras before then anyway. And equally based on open protocols like gopher and nntp.