[the Internet] Ought To Be Like Clay,

The Search Button On The Browser No Longer Provides An Objective Search, But A Commercial One.

If You Use The Original World Wide Web Program, You Never See A Url Or Have To Deal With Html. That Was A Surprise To Me - That People Were Prepared To Painstakingly Write Html.

I Think A Lot Of Great Software Has Been Written By People Who Are Scratching A Short-term Itch, Something Which Has Been Niggling Them For Ages, But In The Back Of Their Mind They’ve Got A Wonderful Long-term Plan.

Freedom Of Connection With Any Application To Any Party Is The Fundamental Social Basis Of The Internet. And Now, Is The Basis Of The Society Built On The Internet.

Anyone Who Slaps A 'this Page Is Best Viewed With Browser X' Label On A Web Page Appears To Be Yearning For The Bad Old Days, Before The Web, When You Had Very Little Chance Of Reading A Document Written On Another Computer, Another Word Processor, Or Another Network.