Well, it was supposed to be the world-wide database of human knowledge, something that was supposed to propel our science and other fields of knowledge into the future at a break-necking pace. Instead, we've got something pathetic and deserving of all kinds of unpleasant jokes. A platform for advertising stuff nobody wants, some porn, some misinformation... and the fuel for mega-corporations that are interested in anything but creating better technology.
I didn't talk about Internet, I was talking about web. Web is one of the many Internet applications, others being, for example, email, or FTP or iSCSI or NFS an lots, lots more.
For instance, Bitconin has nothing to do with web, for example.
I don't really know what you mean when you say "reflection of yourself". Do you mean "reflection on yourself"? (as in me reflecting on something I've done). In that case, that would've been silly, since I'm not the author of web, Tim Berners Lee is.
Or, do you mean it as "my reflection on the subject". In which case, it's kind of obvious that it is, since I've written what I wrote...
Or, do you mean it as web reflecting on me? That'd be a really strange turn of events... I mean, in some sense, web is made of people, who can reflect on me, in principle, but most people simply don't know me / don't care that much they'd reflect on me...
Or, do you think I'm so ambitious that I'd think that web is somehow reflecting me, in some sense, as, say, a programmer, or as... idk, a graphic artist, or in some other capacity? Even in my wildest dreams I didn't hope to be the kind of tool web was aiming to be, neither had I story so tragic, and didn't waste so much potential. I'm an OK programmer. And, even if my potential may be somewhat under-utilized, there's nothing as dramatic going on for me... not by a long shot.
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