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The Extended Internet Universe - by Venkatesh Rao

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The Internet is now a very complicated place

The Extended Internet Universe The Internet is now a very complicated place Venkatesh Rao May 24, 2019 86 1 2 Share For several years now, I’ve been watching the creeping, unheralded growth of what I call the cozyweb, and for which others have lots of creative names . Kickstarter founder Yancey Strickler called it the Dark Forest in a recent post. Unlike the main public internet, which runs on the (human) protocol of “users” clicking on links on public pages/apps maintained by “publishers”, the cozyweb works on the (human) protocol of everybody cutting-and-pasting bits of text, images, URLs, a

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