What the Internet Could Have Been - Revision history

Kirk: Protected "What the Internet Could Have Been" ([Edit=Allow only administrators] (indefinite) [Move=Allow only administrators] (indefinite)) [cascading]

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Protected "What the Internet Could Have Been" ([Edit=Allow only administrators] (indefinite) [Move=Allow only administrators] (indefinite)) [cascading]

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Kirk at 17:26, 31 January 2020

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	*'''Curated information on all topics''' [[Issues/News\|Issues/News]] (as opposed to junk info you find on Facebook, Google, Twitter etc)		*'''Curated information on all topics''' [[Issues/News\|Issues/News]] (as opposed to junk info you find on Facebook, Google, Twitter etc)

	*''Personalized member's pages (think Facebook)'''		*'''Personalized member's pages (think Facebook)'''

	*'''A polling platform open to all members''' [[Special:SecurePoll\|Here]]		*'''A polling platform open to all members''' [[Special:SecurePoll\|Here]]

Kirk at 17:25, 31 January 2020

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	*'''Curated information on all topics''' [[Issues/News\|Issues/News]] (as opposed to junk info you find on Facebook, Google, Twitter etc)		*'''Curated information on all topics''' [[Issues/News\|Issues/News]] (as opposed to junk info you find on Facebook, Google, Twitter etc)

			*''Personalized member's pages (think Facebook)'''

	*'''A polling platform open to all members''' [[Special:SecurePoll\|Here]]		*'''A polling platform open to all members''' [[Special:SecurePoll\|Here]]

Kirk at 16:40, 31 January 2020

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	*'''An internal discussion platform''' [[Discussion Pages]]		*'''An internal discussion platform''' [[Discussion Pages]]

	*'''A customized search engine'''		*'''A customized search engine''' [[under construction]]

	*'''An electoral process that balances the interests of the ownership of the website with the interests of the users of the website''' [[under construction]]		*'''An electoral process that balances the interests of the ownership of the website with the interests of the users of the website''' [[under construction]]

Kirk at 16:40, 31 January 2020

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	*'''An internal discussion platform''' [[Discussion Pages]]		*'''An internal discussion platform''' [[Discussion Pages]]

			*'''A customized search engine'''

	*'''An electoral process that balances the interests of the ownership of the website with the interests of the users of the website''' [[under construction]]		*'''An electoral process that balances the interests of the ownership of the website with the interests of the users of the website''' [[under construction]]

Kirk at 16:13, 31 January 2020

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	If you are old enough you might remember the early days of the internet and how hopefully egalitarian it all seemed. There was no Facebook, no Google, no Amazon, no Ebay, no Uber, etc, etc. Looking back it is now clear that the internet just had too much economic potential for the big money to restrain itself. Instead of offering an egalitarian foundation for exchange of information and ideas, it became what we see today; another instrument where the few can manipulate the many, drawing value from their undervalued information and labor and thereby making the few, fabulously wealthy. In exchange, the many get wages that seem generous but when it comes down to it they can barely keep up with the rising costs of housing, medical expenses, legal expenses, government services (taxes) and those other costs that seem to be rising so much faster then the official inflation gauges tell us they are. We also get jobs that have boundaries, expectations and supervision that feels much greater than it has in the past.		If you are old enough you might remember the early days of the internet and how hopefully egalitarian it all seemed. There was no Facebook, no Google, no Amazon, no Ebay, no Uber, etc, etc. Looking back it is now clear that the internet just had too much economic potential for the big money to restrain itself.

			Instead of offering an egalitarian foundation for exchange of information and ideas, it became what we see today; another instrument where the few can manipulate the many, drawing value from their undervalued information and labor and thereby making the few, fabulously wealthy. In exchange, the many get wages that seem generous but when it comes down to it they can barely keep up with the rising costs of housing, medical expenses, legal expenses, government services (taxes) and those other costs that seem to be rising so much faster then the official inflation gauges tell us they are. We also get jobs that have boundaries, expectations and supervision that feels much greater than it has in the past.

	This Wiki is my attempt to resurrect some of that hopeful egalitarian spirit that was present back in the early days of the internet. I'm talking about circa 1992. I'm a believer that the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki] open source software is a foundation powerful enough to create a framework around, that can be a kind of backwater showcase of what the Internet Could Have Been.		This Wiki is my attempt to resurrect some of that hopeful egalitarian spirit that was present back in the early days of the internet. I'm talking about circa 1992. I'm a believer that the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki] open source software is a foundation powerful enough to create a framework around, that can be a kind of backwater showcase of what the Internet Could Have Been.

Kirk at 16:09, 31 January 2020

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	*'''A curated Howto section''' [[Howto/Blogs\|Howto/Blogs]]		*'''A curated Howto section''' [[Howto/Blogs\|Howto/Blogs]]

	A direct charity platform.		*'''A direct charity platform'''[[under construction]]

	A micro-lending platform.		*'''A micro-lending platform'''[[under construction]]

	*'''An internal discussion platform''' [[Discussion Pages]]		*'''An internal discussion platform''' [[Discussion Pages]]

	An electoral process that balances the interests of the ownership of the website with the interests of the users of the website.		*'''An electoral process that balances the interests of the ownership of the website with the interests of the users of the website''' [[under construction]]

	A process where users can easily become owners.		*'''A process where users can easily become owners by using the "sweat equity" [[Legal Structure]]

	--[[User:Kirk\|Admin1 Kirk]] ([[User talk:Kirk\|talk]]) 10:28, 5 January 2020 (CST)		--[[User:Kirk\|Admin1 Kirk]] ([[User talk:Kirk\|talk]]) 10:28, 5 January 2020 (CST)

Kirk at 16:05, 31 January 2020

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	If you are old enough you might remember the early days of the internet and how hopefully egalitarian it all seemed. There was no Facebook, no Google, no Amazon, no Ebay, no Uber, etc, etc. Looking back it is now clear that the internet just had too much economic potential for the big money to restrain itself. Instead of offering an egalitarian foundation for exchange of information and ideas, it became what we see today; another instrument where the few can manipulate the many, drawing value from their undervalued information and labor and thereby making the few fabulously wealthy. In exchange the many get wages that seem generous but when it comes down to it they can barely keep up with the rising costs of housing, medical expenses, legal expenses, government services (taxes) and those other costs that seem to be rising so much faster then the official inflation gauges tell us they are. We also get jobs that have boundaries, expectations and supervision that feels much greater than it has in the past.		If you are old enough you might remember the early days of the internet and how hopefully egalitarian it all seemed. There was no Facebook, no Google, no Amazon, no Ebay, no Uber, etc, etc. Looking back it is now clear that the internet just had too much economic potential for the big money to restrain itself. Instead of offering an egalitarian foundation for exchange of information and ideas, it became what we see today; another instrument where the few can manipulate the many, drawing value from their undervalued information and labor and thereby making the few, fabulously wealthy. In exchange, the many get wages that seem generous but when it comes down to it they can barely keep up with the rising costs of housing, medical expenses, legal expenses, government services (taxes) and those other costs that seem to be rising so much faster then the official inflation gauges tell us they are. We also get jobs that have boundaries, expectations and supervision that feels much greater than it has in the past.

	This Wiki is my attempt to resurrect some of that hopeful egalitarian spirit that was present back in the early days of the internet. I'm talking about circa 1992. I'm a believer that the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki] open source software is a foundation powerful enough to create a framework around, that can be a kind of backwater showcase of what the Internet Could Have Been.		This Wiki is my attempt to resurrect some of that hopeful egalitarian spirit that was present back in the early days of the internet. I'm talking about circa 1992. I'm a believer that the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki] open source software is a foundation powerful enough to create a framework around, that can be a kind of backwater showcase of what the Internet Could Have Been.

Kirk at 17:08, 19 January 2020

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	A micro-lending platform.		A micro-lending platform.

	An internal discussion platform.		*'''An internal discussion platform''' [[Discussion Pages]]

	An electoral process that balances the interests of the ownership of the website with the interests of the users of the website.		An electoral process that balances the interests of the ownership of the website with the interests of the users of the website.

Kirk at 16:05, 6 January 2020

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	*'''A polling platform open to all members''' [[Special:SecurePoll\|Here]]		*'''A polling platform open to all members''' [[Special:SecurePoll\|Here]]

	An administrative structure designed to prevent a usurpation of the [[Foundation\|founding principals]] or a [[Legal Structure\|sell out to the powerful]].		*'''An administrative structure designed to prevent a usurpation of the [[Foundation\|founding principals]] or a [[Legal Structure\|sell out to the powerful]]'''.

	*'''A curated Election Information Section''' [[Elections/Candidates\|Elections/Candidates]]		*'''A curated Election Information Section''' [[Elections/Candidates\|Elections/Candidates]]

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	*'''A polling platform open to all members''' [[Special:SecurePoll\|Here]]		*'''A polling platform open to all members''' [[Special:SecurePoll\|Here]]

	An administrative structure designed to prevent a usurpation of the [[Foundation\|founding principals]] or a [[Legal Structure\|sell out to the powerful]].		*'''An administrative structure designed to prevent a usurpation of the [[Foundation\|founding principals]] or a [[Legal Structure\|sell out to the powerful]]'''.

	*'''A curated Election Information Section''' [[Elections/Candidates\|Elections/Candidates]]		*'''A curated Election Information Section''' [[Elections/Candidates\|Elections/Candidates]]