Capitalism didn't give us the internet.

Large-scale cooperation, open protocols, and free software gave us the internet. Capitalism gave us mobile sites that don't work because fifteen ads cover the screen.

@existentialcomics there's an early RFC on why capitalism won't deliver an Internet:
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc873.html
RFC 873: Illusion of vendor support

@prw @existentialcomics 1982, fuck.

Goes to show old documents can be right at times.