166. Slumlords of the Internet (ft. Ben Tarnoff)
This Machine Kills
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The Internet Is Old, Right?
The internet is actually kind of old, right? I think that's part of what you're saying, jathon. It's just built on things that were previously there. Old shipping wans are also often where they weighed telephone and telegraph wire,. Then they weighed fibre optic wire on top of that. The question facing the companies that wanted to commercialize the internet was: What happens up the stack? We're not talking about the physical structure of th internet now. We're talking about how people experience the internet today.
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