World of Ends

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2003-03-20 · web architecture · archive copy
WhatManifesto for the internet as an end-to-end system.
Why nowPlatforms keep trying to become the middle.
Statusarchive copy
Found inweb architecture

Doc Searls and David Weinberger describe the internet as a world of ends: value, speech, invention, and control live at the edges rather than inside a central gatekeeper.

WHY IT STILL MATTERSApp stores, feeds, walled gardens, ISP filters, and AI middlemen all try to make the network less end-to-end. This is a clean old argument for why that keeps feeling wrong.
Best opened when a platform explains that it is improving the open web by standing between you and it.
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