@molly0xfff And if the page numbers are correct, you haven’t even begun reading the actual book content yet! LOL
@molly0xfff I heard an ad for this book on a podcast and thanks to you already knew Chris Dixon was maybe not an unbiased recommender of web3. So thanks!
@molly0xfff I don't know Chris Dixon from Adam, but jfc I just read the first few pages on Amazon and WOW tell me nobody is out there taking this knucklehead seriously !
@molly0xfff sweet mercy, who let the archbishop of nfts write a book???
@molly0xfff not even into the numbered pages yet and it's bringing that much wtf, huh
@molly0xfff I find listening to him so maddening. Nothing but dissembling and bullshit with never any details of anything real. I wonder if he's an atheist trapped in the pulpit?
i'm now fucking with DNS because somehow that is more enjoyable than this book
Remember Al Gore's role:
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
😉
@molly0xfff What’s that notes interface? Is that Apple Books or Kindle? Or some separate book notes app? (Sorry if arduous question)
on the bright side, maybe i'll actually get my taxes done now that this is the alternative
@molly0xfff This should have been a blurb on the back cover
@molly0xfff Negative. Nobody fucks with DNS. DNS fucks with you.
@molly0xfff You read this trash so we don't have to. Ty for your service. 😀
@molly0xfff It’s a shame you already got that footnotes thing sorted out.
I had to look for myself. Ah yes, I fondly remember using web browsers to search and read about "almost any topic" in *1990* (not)
@funcrunch @molly0xfff This was where I really fell out of my chair. This guy thinks the internet just kind of popped into existence in 1990 as a network resembling what we had in ~2010
I was thinking maybe he was too young to remember accurately what things were like in 1990 (I was 20 at the time). But then @molly0xfff wasn't even born then, and she's smart enough to know better.
In trying to find out Dixon's age, I found this Forbes interview where he says he's "been working full-time on the Internet really for 25 years as an entrepreneur and then investor" for whatever that's worth.
@funcrunch i wonder if that's actually the problem, like it was easy for HIM to get on the internet in 1990, so he assumes it was for everyone and doesn't bother to do much research on what the internet was like for other people because why would he need to, he was there!
Good point. Also, it's not that the *Internet* wasn't accessible to the public then; I remember using Gopher and email, etc. before then. It's the *web* in particular that certainly wasn't widely accessible until later that decade.
ETA: Although I also realize far fewer people even had home computers until much later.
ETA2: Actually Gopher came out after 1990; should have checked rather than trusting my own memory!
@molly0xfff @funcrunch That can’t even be true for him. I remember coming into work in the early 90’s and browsing the entire World-Wide-Web(WWW), and I mean ALL of it, there were people maintaining lists of “what new web site popped up today” because you COULD maintain a list like that in your spare time. 😂