“To use the Net, you had to understand Unix, and the current users had no interest in making it easier. In fact, there was a definite element of not wanting to make it easier, of actually wanting to keep the riffraff out.” Imagine if the gatekeepers got their way. Now look at the current comments about how we don't want normies on Mastodon or how Windows users deserve to be hacked. Fuck gatekeepers.

Ars Technica

A history of the Internet, part 2: The high-tech gold rush begins

The Web Era arrives, the browser wars flare, and a bubble bursts.