SCN: Distributed systems

[Rod Clark]

> Maverick Programmers Prepare To Unleash Anarchy on the Web
> ...
> If you think the Internet is an untamed frontier now, just wait. A
> new technology sweeping through cyberspace promises to unleash an
> entirely new wave of anarchy onto the Web, ...

Steve, 

   This breathless article is in many ways a pretty good
description of Usenet, even though the writer never mentions it.
Usenet has been around much longer than the Web, and it carries
all kinds of files, including music and photos and video as well
as text. Usenet is "anarchic" and has no central control, but
the world has not come to an end because of it. That some people
are starting to do this same kind of distributed publishing on
their networks of Web sites is interesting, though.

Rod

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