Existential ComicsCapitalism 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.
Zalasur 🇺🇦@existentialcomics Fun fact: Capitalism *did* try to develop a protocol on top of IP called OSI that was co-developed by a bunch of industry titans at the time. It was complex and bloated with a very proprietary tech stack.
It never caught on because of an open protocol that was much simpler overtook it back in the early 80s called TCP.
These days the only remnant from the OSI initiative in use today is the "OSI model" used to describe the tech stack for the internet in general.
Wolf480pl@zalasur @existentialcomics pretty sure OSI was not built on top of IP, but in parallel to it. AFAIK it used X.25 for the network layer, i.e. the same role that IP plays in the Internet
@wolf480pl @existentialcomics OK, that I did not know. Thanks for the clarification!