| > SquareSpace would be trading way higher than they are now, Twitter wouldn't exist, and Facebook would look a lot like MySpace. What is remarkable is that despite trying to wall the garden, the personal website is still a thing. > Many people don't care about web culture; they only care about consuming. Maybe the era of shifting print, TV and radio to the internet is reaching saturation. You can view the internet as a content distribution system, but that ignores the key difference between internet and broadcast media: it is a two-way communication media. > My take: people created websites back then because there was no other choice. There were plenty of choices. The big innovation was the social network that allowed people to connect with friends, family, and people with common interests. Now you could write something, take a picture, make a video, whatever, and share it with people who would start communicating with you and form communities around those interests. > Most people have non-computery interests, and that's fine. Most people now communicate via the internet about those non-computer-y interests. |