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Howard Rheingold on Tools for Thought

The Informed Life

Participation from everyday people is essential for the web's existence

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  • The web came from the participation of hundreds of thousands of people who began putting up web sites and linking to each other.
  • Innovation on the web was deliberately reserved to the edges of the network, allowing people to use the web protocols without rewiring the internet.
  • Young 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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