It's just the beginning, the internet is dead 23%

I miss the Internet

12 years ago (April 21, 2003) shortly after entering the Texas University of Houston's political science major, Matt Mullenweg published the program source code used to build blogs on his blog ma.tt. Matt, who is 19 years old, does not know that the program he has written will become an important pillar of the world's Internet for the next 10 years.

A year later, the Houston local news wrote his entrepreneurial story in the blogosphere, and on the subtitle, he said it was the time to start the Internet blog. Ironically, it was this story from the traditional media that made Matt realise that his own and his creation of Wordpress should be a revolutionary tool for human exploitation of the information frontier, so he left the University of Houston and drove a used car to the West, cnet--, a media company that has just turned to the internet in San Francisco, began to take the digital gospel to the world.

The Golden Age of Information

If you catch up with 2003 years, you don't think it's the best time to start a business.

After the bursting of the dotcom bubble at the turn of the century, the more complex of technology companies known as tomorrow's stars in the bubble, the capital markets and the end consumer market for the internet have lasted for three of years. It was not until the 2003 that the Internet began to usher in the second spring, and Matt and his Wordpress were definitely not the only protagonists in the era.

Google released Google Group in 2001, the first Forum service in the world to use without having to set up a server itself--you can think of it as a--google. The original purpose of creating it is to replace the tedious newsgroup. Google Group did accelerate the demise of the e-mail-based newsgroup discussion group, although Google did not succeed in a series of attempts to subvert email.

Google also acquired the Blogger created by Pyra Labs the year it was published, the largest BSP in the World(blog service provider, blogging services provider). After the acquisition, Google retains the iconic independent brand of blogger, like the brand of bread-and-roll, and continues to provide free blogging and storage services for its users.

Until the next year, this brand-new, user-produced content method was opened by the open source software scholar Tim O ' Reilly and his partner in a brainstorming session formally named to Web2.0 this number. The word has been a panacea for internet entrepreneurs for a long time after, and has been converted into an input box and an upload button--and before most sites have no interactivity, the only driving force for users to open those sites is to get some information from there rather than share it.

In that era, the threshold of information transmission had been lowered to an unprecedented low, as an Internet user--you didn't even have the awareness--you could easily create a blog post whatever you wanted to publish. In the Reddit that emerged in 2005, the news for the authorities was no longer the main focus of attention, and the commentary was.

This means that ordinary people can create content on the Internet in a much simpler and more intuitive way, and the internet is just beginning to become a user's internet and no longer a network engineer, geek and geek's internet.

The world's thirst for value content makes it possible for you to not know the front-end in that era, without having to understand complex code, and simply blogging and sharing what you know can make a full profit.

Closed and isolated Island

Information is not connected to the world is a BUG, and the entire internet is to repair this loophole exists.

As early as the blog age, the controversy between the independent blogger and BSP has continued between bloggers.

Independent bloggers tend to buy a domain name independently, a personal host that runs a blog, and use Wordpress or other blogging code to set up a blog that is entirely theirs.

In such a blog, bloggers have absolute control over the entire blog, he can allow other users to contribute, or arbitrarily modify the manuscript has been issued, you can delete or disguise the comments, you can put the appearance of the blog to decorate their favorite look, but also in the most easily clicked place put on their own ads.

The motivation to pursue an independent blogger may be to make money--it's not difficult to write a blog in that era, and it's possible to get a higher degree of freedom. The choice of BSP users may be more simple, they simply do not use Wordpress or unwilling to pay for domain names and virtual hosting.

Although blogger--bloggers are a group of people who love to write and share, the two categories of individuals who choose independent blogs and BSP are completely ecological: independent bloggers like "Medieval European feudal castles", each "Lord" having absolute autonomy in his own territory, And there is no complementarity between each other, and the blog hosted in BSP is more like a "federal state".

Although the ecology of the independent blog gradually develops towards the "EU" through functions such as RSS, Pingback protocol and Disqus comment, absolute autonomy and excessive freedom still make each independent blog an island of information-a self-consistent set of information that is independent of the internet and is not connected to others.

the Internet's information island problem has always been like an annoying bug across the internet, and all internet pioneers are trying to fix the bug in their own way. Because it concerns the nature of the Internet--the interconnection and interoperability of information.

However, the problems appearing on independent blogs and stand-alone sites appear to be non-solvable, as more and more WEB 2.0 forms emerge. Many independent bloggers have also opted to abandon their independent blogs to one of the BSP or later social networks. Matt Mullenweg also launched the WordPress.com in 2006, a blog hosting service that allows users to set up their Wordpress blog without having to buy domain names and servers.

the islands of information are not interconnected, but drift into a whole continent , and no one realizes that the intensive product form is exactly anti-Internet.

Copyright and Justice

Thunder to human civilization blows like a piece of two-way foil.

2002, Zou Shenglong, 30, Thunderbolt 1.0 on-line. However, the time for Thunder to kill the electric donkey and BT may be later than he expected. In fact, until the 2007, the Thunder, the Electric Donkey community and the BT party between the dispute is quite a bit of three pillars situation.

The birth of peer-to download, originally to alleviate the traditional download mode of server resources and bandwidth pressure. It lets everyone who downloads files automatically become a server, which saves the overhead of downloading the server.

However, the peer download system inadvertently brings the world's greatest information base, which contains all the value of human production every day content-there is a fee, free, legal, illegal, advanced, old-fashioned. all the information that human beings produce, as long as someone is interested in it, it will not disappear in this data sea.

Zou Shenglong invented "offline downloads" in order to defeat the most perfect content-sharing system for humans. "Offline Download" is the Thunderbolt to the resource unification decisive, this function is so concise: let users forget the pain of no source, farewell to the hanging machine and anxiously waiting. Whatever the resources, all you need to do is click on "Offline Download" and the content will appear on the user's hard drive quickly.

As with all the sophisticated logic behind the elegant features, the "Offline download" Good user experience comes from the Thunder that compresses the entire resource ocean into its own server farm, which negates the dual meaning of peer-to download:

• Save the server bandwidth by Thunderbolt shoulder, and passed into the Thunder client ads, pop windows, Rogue plug-ins and membership fees;

• The dispersed storage resource is once again condensed to a target that can be locked.

"Offline download" The elegant user experience is not justto C (Consumer), but also to B(business) andto G (goverment)-there is no more water meter in the world than Thunderbolt let the record company, The film company and various departments are pleased. Copyright and censorship of the Damocles sword from now on can be targeted, and then not a knife water--any person who has the right to assert can make some information from the thunder of the territory permanently disappear.

Although some people have long anticipated this outcome, "offline download" is based on a "even if I do not, there will be someone else's" mentality squeezed dry the data sea. Some of the fish in the sea fled to the land, and more died in exhaustion.

2014 Thunderbolt listed, already 45-year-old Zou Shenglong obviously already do not want to go to the back of the matter: Thunderbolt business transformation into a CDN company, Thunder shares shrank 22 times times, Thunder sold to see the player cash, Business Review said: "Thunder is finished" and no one notice the end of a civilization-a piece of information on the mainland sank.

User achievements of the Zou Shenglong Thunderbolt, Thunderbolt created the exhaustion of the present, the user passive choice of copyright and justice, a history of all happy.

A dilemma on your fingertips

Humans created the IPhone with 10 fingers of God, and then only two thumbs.

The advent of touch devices such as smartphones and tablets, coupled with the popularity of WiFi and the development of 3G and 4G, have reduced the threshold for information access once again. This is probably not a good thing, however, because people are less likely to look at a large monograph or a large piece of video before a "big screen".

To make clear it--"information technology"-the real driving force of human progress is information rather than technology this thing to the world to harvest a whole internet era, and when the era of mobile internet is coming, Technology has again become a double-edged sword that hinders the flow of information.

The combination of social networks and mobile Internet is like the Queen's Apple for Snow White: On the one hand, it produces a lot of useless information, which will be broken, distorted, and noisy by the large segment of high value. On the other hand, let the general public think that the Internet is the same, Anyone should make a contribution to making this rubbish.

In the blog age, although the distance between the information islands is far away, but we can still see a topic and another topic to trigger the discussion. Such discussions are non-real-time, lengthy and precipitate. One year after the end of a topic, you can still trace the whole of a topic. Rather than being like this, it's hard to remember what happened last year on Weibo or Facebook.

Yahoo in 1990 and 1999 of Google in the form of products have made the information on the Internet become more interconnected, and the rise of smartphones and social networking sites to let the information back to the island again.

information barriers between applications and applications today, the walls are still high, and valuable information is kept in their own worlds. companies born in the era of the mobile internet are also happy to believe that they are unique to their business value and are reluctant to share them with others.

More frightening, the mobile internet is disrupting the productive capacity of people for valuable information.

Apple has led the way in society's aesthetics of Internet products, which has peaked on Apple's latest Apple Watch – and even companies like Apple are unlikely to come up with black technology, allowing users to interact more complex on a watch. So it is recommended that users in the inability to reply and do not know how to reply, send a heartbeat at this time to the other wrist.

This subversive interaction allows all human beings to portray the psychological rhetoric of nothingness, it is so intuitive, so intuitively so that users seem to return to the primitive society, so that social regression to the silent breath and Heartbeat. Pure Let the heart break, useless to let people enchanted.

Shakespeare couldn't have done Macbeth on a tablet, smart phones, smart watches, or smart glasses. The mobile internet and the wearable devices we foresee are like vampires, which allow everyone to consume valuable content and never produce anything of value.

All times Gone

In the most developed era of human information civilization, human civilization is undergoing a fault.

Baidu space to close.

Yes, this is not the first time humans have shut down such a large BSP, we have previously waved MySpace, nameless station and MSN Spaces. In addition, there are some users, although not many, but influential enough to become the symbol of the blog site-such as Bo Yi Chih, blog China, as well as the Bullog network.

Every time such a shutdown is like a forced move. Although Microsoft or Baidu, in order to experience such a sense of responsibility will be designated a good backup and migration path. But in different BSP or storage mode of transfer, as in the move will always be more or less lost something.

Moreover, after the end of the golden Age of blogging, the vast majority of blogs are merely present and not still alive. More users to wait for a long time after the strong demolition, will face the ruins think of their own once in a place has a dedicated management of the small nest.

Of course, this kind of natural disasters always appeared in history.

1900 years ago, on a hill on the Parc Chanot River in Italy, a sudden catastrophe devastated the city that the Greeks and Phoenician loved. The waves of the ancient city of Pompeii sank into the depths of the earth overnight in the Vesuvio.

1700 years later, the ruins of Pompeii, with the help of a member of the expedition, contain some surprising parchment rolls. The magma has been flowing silently beside these scrolls, except for some charred edges, which are clearly legible.

While the exclamation point can travel through time in such a simple way, for most of the people who read this article, even the disks used 20 years ago cannot be easily read.

The Internet and the cloud are accelerating the speed of public forgetting, and it's hard to go back to what we talked about 1 years ago on the social network, it's hard to find the information from the blogs 5 years ago, it's hard to find the images 10 years ago, it's almost impossible to read the data from the storage device 20 years ago--but I can easily turn Photos that were printed 30 years ago.

Although the main image file 10 years ago compared to the current 1080P and 4K, capacity is often insignificant, but in more and more server farms and increasingly dense "cloud", people can not afford even a little space for these gradually lost information to leave a backup.

April 21, 2015, in the official closing of Baidu space this day, Wordpress ushered in its 12-year-old birthday. WordPress.com home page written such a copy: Wordpress occupies 23% of the Internet.

No one doubts this number, but it also means that 23% of the content on the Internet will disappear from the world forever as bloggers forget about them and expire in the domain name and server.

These bits have no tombstone, and no archaeologists know what has happened here.

Graph from Zombie game Left 4 Dead a famous graffiti wall, after the end of the human on the wall of the message debate, in a world full of zombies who is the real monster. And only a poor worm saw the post of the wall and missed the dead Internet.

The author of this article @ comment on the corpse in the new media: Red Tide Akashio (No.: Akashio)-This thought if the tide, do not touch the dust from the air. Reproduced please retain this information.

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It's just the beginning, the internet is dead 23%