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0 pointscriddell3y ago0 comments

I've started to look at blockchains as a solution in search of a problem.

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So was the Internet during the dotcom boom. And now the Internet is part of the problem. The Gartner cycle is an epicycle.

criddellOP3y ago

I don't quite get what you mean. The internet was designed and used to connect networks of computers. I started using it for email, gopher, and ftp in 1989 but it was 20 years old at that point.

kuramitropolis3y ago

I mean the Web.

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kuramitropolis3y ago

So was the Internet during the dotcom boom. And now the Internet is part of the problem. The Gartner cycle is an epicycle.

criddellOP3y ago

I don't quite get what you mean. The internet was designed and used to connect networks of computers. I started using it for email, gopher, and ftp in 1989 but it was 20 years old at that point.

kuramitropolis3y ago

I mean the Web.

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