How the Internet was Stolen

I look at the history of the internet, from ARPANET & NSFNET, through privatization, to Tim-Berners Lee, Yahoo, Netscape, Google, eBay, and Facebook, examining Microsoft’s antitrust court case and their battle against Open Source and Free Software, Bill Gate’s Open Letter to Hobbyists and the leaked Halloween Documents. Then we take a look at the emergence of Surveillance Capitalism, and how platforms like AirBnb & Uber coopt the idea of the community and lobby politicians. Finally, we take a look at some alternatives. Thank you to @WereInHell @zoe_bee @Tom_Nicholas @epochphilosophy @RadicalReviewer @unlearningeconomics9021 @PoliticalPhilosophyChannel for their help with this video. Bibliography: Chapters: 00:00 – Introduction to the History of the Internet 04:06 – Building the Net 20:37 – The Browser Wars (Microsoft vs the United States) 44:35 – The Californian Ideology (eBay, Yahoo, Google and the Libertarian Mind) 01:07:26 – The Raiding of Privacy (Surveillance Capitalism) 01:18:05 – Facebook 01:26:07 – The Theft of the Community (Airbnb & Uber) 01:40:31 – No Place (Utopian Dreams) 01:49:38 – Open Source vs Microsoft 01:59:24 – Conclusion: Politics, Policy, and Alternatives Then & Now is FAN-FUNDED! Support me on Patreon and pledge as little as $1 per video: Or send me a one-off tip of any amount and help me make more videos: Buy on Amazon through this link to support the channel: Follow me on: Facebook: Instagram: Twitter: Subscribe to the podcast: Credits: Babbage Engine video - Seth Ladd, CC BY 3.0, , via Wikimedia Commons Pierre Omydar photo - Joi 15:42, 2 August 2007 (UTC), CC BY 2.0, , via Wikimedia Commons Yahoo Sign, Beraldo Leal from Natal / RN, Brazil, CC BY 2.0, , via Wikimedia Commons Page & Brinn photo, Ehud Kenan, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Yahoo sign photograph, Sebastian Bergmann, CC BY-SA 2.0, , via Wikimedia Commons Napster Screenshot, Njahnke, CC BY-SA 4.0, , via Wikimedia Commons Sean Fanning, Joi Ito, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Metallica photo, Kreepin Deth, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Bill Gates portrait, By Kuhlmann /MSC - , CC BY 3.0 de, Richard Stallman Photograph, Sam Williams, CC BY-SA 3.0, , via Wikimedia Commons GNU Manifesto, Raghavendra Kamath, CC BY 4.0, , via Wikimedia Commons Linus Torvalds photo, Unknown photographer who sold rights to the picture to , CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Wikipedia globe, Slashme, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Wikimania, Rory O’Connor, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Bill Gates photograph, Kees de Vos from The Hague, The Netherlands, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Mark Andreessen photo, JD Lasica, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons AOL disc, Thiago A. from Brazil, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Ebay photo, Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons