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by bryanrasmussen 2728 days ago
If the web went back to what it was 20 years ago that would be economically catastrophic, I mean if it happened like nearly instantly, if it happened over a space of 10-15 years OK.
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In the context of the quote, let’s ignore non-ad based stuff, like amazon’s shipping network, and online banking.

In what way would resetting the ad based parts 20 years be catastrophic?

Were RSS and semi-curated news portals like yahoo and google news that much worse for publishers? (I thought they were actually better, economically, than FB...)

the context of the quote was that the web went back to what it was 20 years ago, ignoring the non-ad based stuff is cherry picking after the fact.