For months, Google has maintained that the web is “thriving,” AI isn’t tanking traffic, and its search engine is sending people to a wider variety of websites than ever. But in a court filing from last week, Google admitted that “the open web is already in rapid decline” (with regard to advertising, kinda-sorta)

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    No it wasn’t

    First connections were between universities. Tim Berners-Lee at CERN then came up with web pages to easier share information

    There was nothing capitalist about the internet back then

        • Hikki88@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          3 days ago

          Cool, I think it’s correct and to pretend that it’s otherwise won’t help when you’re in the search for truth. We can agree to disagree.