The
Internet, The Cesspit of All
I
never expected, The Internet, to become “The Cesspit of All”.
The
expectation of the Internet when it was laid open to the public by
the US Defense Department and later by the European consortium were
said to be,
1.
Openness
2.
Fairness
3.
Educational Potential
4.
Universality
5.
No National borders to the spread of factual information
6. It is Free
History
On
6 August 1991, the World Wide Web went live to the world.
There
was no fanfare in the global press.
In
fact, most people around the world didn’t even know what the
Internet was.
Even
if they did, the revolution the Web ushered in was still but a
twinkle in Tim Berners-Lee’s eye.
Instead,
the launch was marked by way of a short post from Berners-Lee on the
alt.hypertext newsgroup, which is archived to this day on Google
Groups.
The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to make an easy but powerful global information system.
The project started with the philosophy that much academic information should be freely available to anyone. It aims to allow information sharing within internationally dispersed teams, and the dissemination of information by support groups.
Where
are we now?
By
the time US election campaign started it has become a cesspit.
1.
Faked News
2.
Breaking into DMC computers
3.
Surveillance by NSA, FBI, CIA, MI5 and MI6, KGB
4.
Hackers
5.
Fear mongering
6.
Terrorism
7. No
Education at all
8.
Corporate interest of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram
9.
Erosion of Privacy
10.
Mayhem
When
it started (Internet) there was no Web Browsers, Twitter or Facebook.
I had
a conflict with Facebook over six month or so when I first registered
with them;
Many
moons ago!
Once
log in they would not let me log out completely.
That
is to say Good Bye for good.
Full
Divorce!
After
months of the ongoing dispute they let me log out but the log out
menu was barely visible.
One
has to look for it with the mouse and it come into display only
momentarily.
I
wanted them to erase all my entries (only a few categorically
disagreeing with them) but they said it was a policy of them to keep
a track of all individuals who registered with them.
I
logged off and only activated it when we had our 50 year batch
anniversary in style.
Even
then, I did not answer or post any updates or photos but kept the
links made by them (not me) to my friends.
Then
it dawned on me these platforms secretly provide our private
information (for money) to commercial companies and secret services
of USA and UK.
The
bottom line is when you open an email account, from that moment, YOU
lose your privacy.
I
never believed Microsoft and Windows and moved into Linux platform
long before social media were in existence.
My
first web page was on WordPress and all my web articles are still
there BUT not on public domain.
One
need to pay a monthly fee for public domain.
Let
me list a few of the Open Source web applications out of the
hundreds.
1.
Wordpress
2.
Livejournal
3.
GNU social
4.
Dokuwiki
For
me Google Blog post is the only media I use to communicate with
(Thank You for its excellent service) the Internet.
I
have less than 10 visitors a day with no comments at all for over 15
years.
Not
that I would respond to any comments.
Rarely
I respond to Quora questions that come in my way through the emails.
