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March 27th class

  • Valued real estate on the new web

  • bundling

  • human curated lists online circa 94 "-began as a collection of Jerry Yang and David Filo's favourite websites: "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" directing traffic using web crawlers

  • early gendering in web 90s

  • geocities - the web is a place producing things of your own identity rather than bits of content on others platforms

yahoo kills the geographical metaphor and brings in usernames when they bought it. killed it off later with little warning. "IA: 'Yahoo! succeeded in destroying the most amount of history in the shortest amount of time, certainly on purpose, in known memory. Millions of files, user accounts, all gone.'"

  • the neighbourhood system
  • the geographical metaphor for the web - you join and find your community

  • HOMESTEADING <3 vs. Strip mining/clear cutting <!--3

  • section 230 - protects the owner of a platform from the posts by users. prodigy vs financial firm in a lawsuit. because prodigy moderates - more like a newspaper rather than a bookstore - lawsuit proceeds.

    • POWERFUL INCENTIVE NOT TO MODERATE
    • Thus section 230. But this makes them immune even if they know of illegal or defamatory content on their platform.
    • Quiet deleting = no evidence of crime

  • a note on the in class hypothesis exercise on an essay written by AI