Howard Rheingold on Tools for Thought
The Informed Life
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Participation from everyday people is essential for the web's existence
The web came from the participation of hundreds of thousands of people who began putting up web sites and linking to each other./nInnovation on the web was deliberately reserved to the edges of the network, allowing people to use the web protocols without rewiring the internet./nYoung people who weren't participants or working for some company were interested in what they could do with the web and this led to the creation of websites like Facebook and Google.
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