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The Web3 Renaissance: A Golden Age for Content - by Li Jin

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In January 1996, Bill Gates published what would go on to become one of the classic essays of the early internet. In it, he describes the very characteristics of the internet that would lay the foundation for the Creator Economy. “One of the exciting things about the internet is that anyone with a PC and a modem can publish whatever content they create,” he writes.

By Li Jin and Katie Parrott for Every You can collect this post as an NFT on Mirror here. In January 1996, Bill Gates published what would go on to become one of the classic essays of the early internet. In it, he describes the very characteristics of the internet that would lay the foundation for the Creator Economy. “One of the exciting things about the internet is that anyone with a PC and a modem can publish whatever content they create,” he writes. While Gates’s essay is remembered for its prescience about the direction the internet would take, what’s less well-remembered is that he…

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