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Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model
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Reminder: the Internet has its roots from ARPANET which is designed to survive an atomic blast and openly available to learn. A dead web business model won't kill the technology that allows humans to instantly communicate. If anything a new internet may come of this once the money dries up.
Ah yes when the money that we give monthly to connect dries up. Yes that money will certainly dry up sometime
You're mixing ISP fees with Ad/monetized content revenue (the "web business model"). One is a shortcut to not having build your own infrastructure and the other is for people we don't really need for the internet to function.
Yep there is nothing stopping new web sites coming online. It's just hard to find them. Guess what was also hard in the early Internet days? Finding them. Web rings may make a big comeback.
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This is some good stuff. Thank you!
I have a few books that came free with PC mags back in the day, full of links to mad crazy websites and interesting/useful stuff. So few pixels back then!!