Alex Payne, API leader at Twitter, claims that the internet is “built wrong.”

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When people from a big company say that they think the internet isn’t built right, you have to raise an eye brow. It usually means that the internet isn’t “built right” to suit them(depending on what company we’re talking about). For example, Microsoft says that OSS is bad for the industry…from who’s point of view. I hate how so many large and well known companies, who start out like everyone else, become so self centered.
The internet doesn’t need to be “rebuilt”. If so, how should it be rebuilt? Who should it be rebuilt for? Who should it benefit? If the internet is rebuilt, who is going to have a part in rebuilding it? Big Companies of course, and the government(who specialize in the art of taking a crap on freedom).
In his post Alex Payne goes onto say, “We know the Internet could be better. We can quantify what we lose daily because it isn’t. The question remains: What will it take to push us forward?”
We are moving forward! No one is starving or dying because the internet isn’t “better”. There are a million things that could be seen as not “built right”. For every innovation there is someone saying that this and this What Lies Beneath trailer The Bridge on the River Kwai full movie isn’t done right… From my point of view the internet is a great innovation. It gives people the room to expand on something, it gives people the freedom to communicate. What is right
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In the end it doesn’t matter how something was built or if you don’t agree with it. You build something new, people use or they don’t. No one needs to tell you what guidelines to follow. That’s what the difference is between one innovation and another. The internet is only here because of a new idea.
The web isn’t perfect and it never was. Right from the beginning there were no plans, no one even thought it would hold a few thousand users. The growth of the web is incremental so we can’t kick ourselves for something we didn’t know was going to happen. We can only keep growing unsure of what the future has in store for us.
A Slashdot reader says:
…I’m sick of people that get up on a soapbox and rip apart a good idea because it’s not perfect. Bitch bitch bitch IPv4 has been broken from the start. Well, duh, do you think IPv6 is any less flawed? There’s still a limit, who cares if it’s 10 or 10,000 years in the future because it’s going to have to be dealt with at some point!
Another reader says:
So was a 1932 Ford. So were the highways in 1932. So was an analog computer in 1959.
The only thing wrong about the internet is that it has become obsessed with money rather than information. Technical issues will be worked out over time.
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So I’m sorry Alex but your not coming up with any suggestions on how we should “fix” the internet. Twitter needs a few issues resolved before fingers are pointed elsewhere…because if you ask me, Twitter wasn’t built right.:D But that’s okay because nothing’s perfect.
Things could be worse. Computers, TVs and lawn chairs might have not been built properly…
-Clinton
So was a 1932 Ford. So were the highways in 1932. So was an analog computer in 1959.
The only thing wrong about the internet is that it has become obsessed with money rather than information. Technical issues will be worked out over time.