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by NoraCodes 1374 days ago
I don't agree with this at all. What makes one set of frequency changes over a wire a website and another a voice call? A big pile of socially constructed concepts, from written language to Unicode to TCP and HTML. The electrical impulses are physically real; the website is a construct and makes sense only in the context of society.
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Wow, NoraCodes! I just finished your Rust book! It's great and you're a hero!

But no, a website is not a social construct because you don't have to have a society to have a website. I can have two machines connected and host an html file on one of them and stare at it on the other one all by myself and it will still be a website on a web! No contractual agreement is necessary!

But anyway, it's amazing that you posted on my comment! I am a huge fan!