Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
“Going online” is a behavior that evolved over 4 decades of janky modes to what it is now (The WELL began as a VAX machine in 1985 and is now a Madtodon server…?) BBS/AOL-Compuserve-Usenet/We1/Web2/mobile Wonder if “onchain” Will have a similar trajectory. Farcaster = AOL era? L2s = Usenet?
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Gökhan Turhan
@gokhan.eth
Usenet is still up though—I wonder about how many modular monoliths will evolve from the below list:
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Cassie Heart
@cassie
L2s more like AOL, Farcaster is more like Usenet. AOL was a focused view into the broader internet, that slowly widened its aperture (like OP forks early on picking specific use cases, e.g. Zora, then widened to broader use cases) Farcaster is a separate protocol that interacts with networks, has its own consensus.
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Ike
@iw
Thats an interesting thought. When did we stop "going online".... now we "go offline" since "online" is the default. No one goes "surfing the web" anymore (a dumb mixed metaphor to begin with) since we are always connected. Do we go "surfing IRL?" Whats a dumb metaphor for that? "Meat Strolling?"
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misha 🪨
@mishaderidder.eth
zk probably yahoo or altavista when no one is talking anymore about L2s, zk, NFT or the price of ETH we’ll know we are onchain I think janky tech modes & w3 casino is like a forest we have to cross, in between why we would want to be onchain, different from online: ownership sometimes this gets lost in the noise
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⚪️ cooper 🎩 ↑
@cooperray
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