Talk:Commercialization of the Internet

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Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 14:20, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Writing 2 - Digital Futures
— Assignment last updated by Zmuhl (talk) 22:33, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

"Web 3.0"
It appears this article, which covers historical events, is being used to promote forward-looking predictions by those who want to create a teleology leading from Tim Berners-Lee's WWW to NFTs everywhere. This includes the insistence that no one saw commercial potential of any kind in the Internet in 1994. This claim is absurd to those who were using the Internet at the time. Those who were not, and have been misled by bedtime stories, may refer to UUNET,Delphi (online service), Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel and Eternal September. Wikipedia is not a crystal ball and events that have not happened should not be presented here as if they necessarily will. 67.180.143.89 (talk) 00:18, 12 June 2022 (UTC)

Not a single negative
perspective in the whole article. So much for WP:NPOV. It's written like corporate propaganda. 73.169.248.107 (talk) 16:51, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

Scantily and poorly-written
There's a vitally important history here that should be covered in depth, but this isn't it. Besides the non-objective tone and amateurish phrasing ("The commercialization of the Internet is going so well due to four main reasons." "The Cambridge Analytica wanted Facebook to fix the privacy issues within their application, however Facebook wasn't taking the steps that the Cambridge Analytica wanted Facebook to take."), entire fields of commercial use of the internet are ignored. For example, there isn't a single mention of content publishing.

The commercialized internet may be the most dominant force shaping the world right now and Wikipedia really should do better with its article on it. 2601:602:C800:DA80:6598:ED1B:74A2:D0A (talk) 17:29, 4 January 2023 (UTC)