Bill Gates Explains the Internet to Dave (1995) | Letterman
Why Hacker News recommends it
It is mostly linked as a joke or period piece about how the internet was viewed in the 1990s, not recommended for content.
What it is
A 1995 Letterman appearance in which Bill Gates explains the origins of Microsoft and tries to convince Dave to get a computer and get online.
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What Hacker News said
Cites EGreg · 2022-07 · on “The web is not poor man’s native (2015)”
Lots of developers DO work with the next generation of stuff, from solidity to matrix.org to LBRY to Dat to IPFS etc. And our stuff too. I am not upset at all! In fact I know where you’re coming from because I have seen it so often on HN. It just seems very strange to me that this is happening on a site that started with promoting a “hacker ethos” and “hacking on things” — which is totally associated with rebelling AGAINST large centralized institutions and their power imbalance. Whether it’s ham radio operators or DYI culture or the indie engineering… anyone remember the indieweb movement? How about the Decentralized Web with Tim Berners-Lee? He wrote this: [LINK] (2014) [LINK] (2019) A mon