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over 2 years ago (Edited)

When I look out into across the vast decentralized neighborhoods we call communities here on web3 I see a similar landscape to the early web-pages that were built in neighborhoods of subdomains. Geocities was one site that let you host a certain amount of files. It was one of several early landscapes for communities as we joined the "world wide web".

We used banner ads to try and get our links out there, to show where we lived in a giant unknown universe. Like a solar system with different planets, cut off from eachother, the early internet was mostly hit and miss. Waiting for pages to load, trying to learn about new domains.

I see a lot of parallels here on Hive and it is an interesting network effect taking place, and I have been studying the network on my own since I was just a child. They gave me a computer and showed me how to use it. I was fascinated with the internet, and understood it before most of my teachers even did. I was building web pages after school at the library, and I think the most significant development in that regard came when I was in college and discovered the wiki.

It was a collective document with the links to tie it all together, and anyone could add a new page on a topic they were interested in and had some knowledge about, or at least the desire to expand the catalogue and build out the frame of it. Wikipedia is now basically a digital backup of the worlds knowledge, and I know you can say that it has been edited and not all of it is true, but that is why you should work on it and improve the material. I downloaded the entire wikipedia backup file last year.

Now we are building web-pages right into our favourite coin, which is a distributed ledger hosted across a network of witnesses. Our participation in this digital landscape is in my opinion a necessary evolution of the web with economics build right in to every page. I have written before how all my old webpages are gone, likely never to be recovered.

There are periods of nostalgia that I miss, fond memories in my life of my dad getting a blender frog in his email and we would laugh and laugh. Exploring the other streets on fortunecity.com/Tatooine

Visiting my friends house and his dad letting us go on Netscape, and playing games on computers with 100MB of hard drive space. I used to have a selection of multicolored floppy discs, and for large files had to use multiple discs one after the other. Now we can upload files to ipfs and post a link.

So as we build these communities out and wait for projects to load, lets try to get involved in our Hive city and visit each others neighborhoods. The fighting that has gone on between chains and between users is very counter productive, because there is an example to set here. We are writing the stories that will be remembered as long as the chain exists. New users browsing will only want to use Hive if it is a fun place to be. So lets dedicate 2022 to making Hive as much fun as possible!

Every time I post here I want to add value to Hive, but to do that we have to have fun doing it.

That means all of us creating content that WE enjoy as much as possible.