Why did people in the 90s/early 00s say that the internet "couldn't be taken down"? - eviltoast

Or am I the only one remembering this opinion? I felt like it was common for people to say that the internet couldn’t be taken down, or censored or whatever. This has obviously been proven false with the Great Firewall of China, and of Russia’s latest attempts of completely disconnecting from the global internet. Where did this idea come from?

  • Ziggurat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 days ago

    A big change between the internet in the 90’s/00’s and today, is that today we don’t really have this internet with “all computer being equal”, we have a dozen of facebook/google/reddit/tiktok massive websites, and it’s relatively easy to close one of these.

    in the 90’s a judge could ask an ISP to close the homepage of someone without impacting the whole internet

      • Daemon Silverstein@thelemmy.club
        1·
        3 days ago

        Nowadays, there are some efforts to try and bring back the old gold web:

        • Neocities: it tries to mimick geocities, so people can host HTML+JS+CSS sites that are meant to be static
        • Geminispace capsule hosting services: similar, but without CSS and JS, it goes even further on trying to return the grand old web from Mosaic browser era, as it’s highly content-focused.