For your cuntsideration, the internet.
I happen to think that the digital computer is arguably the greatest invention of all time – so far. This is because of its universality. It is a machine that can do just about anything. Do not be fooled by the shitty software offerings of Mr Gates et al into thinking these things are the scourge of the modern world, enslaving us all. Done right, computers are miraculous. Combining them together in networks magnifies their power enormously.
So you might think that the internet would be one of the greatest, most wondrous inventions of humanity. Er, well, it should be, and could be, but…
Cast your minds back to the early days of the worlwide web, which if memory serves me correct, went live around 1992 (note, the world wide web is not the internet, the internet existed long before the www). Through the 90’s the internet was a vast unexplored new territory like the wild west. It was actually a very different place from today’s internet. There were dark and dangerous corners and literal goldmines and fortunes to be made by the enterprising. Probably the best example of this is Jeff Bezos and Amazon. Cunt though he clearly is, JB had the foresight to set up an online bookstore. Not that he had any particular affection for books but because he realized that books were the perfect thing to sell online because, as the saying goes ‘you don’t judge a book by its cover’. When other cunts like Boo.com were trying to sell shoes etc, which when they turned up and were the wrong size or colour, cunts couldn’t return them, JB realize no one is going to return a book because the dust cover isn’t what they expected. But anyway I digress.
The internet of the 90’s was a wonderful, eclectic, anarchic, edgy, slightly dangerous place. Who can forget the anticipation of jpeg porn downloading slowly over a 56k modem. Those days seem like ancient memories of a lost age.
Today’s internet, faster, slicker that it is with many new technologies collectively known as web 2.0 or whatever version we’re on now is a joyless place. The problem with the original internet was it was too anarchic for the powers that be. It had to be controlled and regulated. This is when the big corporations moved in to dominate it. The likes of Facebook, Google etc effectively balkanized and gentrified the web into a tedious corporate intranet. Yes, there is porn and so on, but even that is corporate controlled porn, not the grass roots porn of the 90’s where the thrill of the hunt was all part of it. Now we’re seeing, creeping, subtle and not so subtle online censorship. We hear politicians openly discussing bans on online anonymity.
So I guess my cunting is not really about the internet but the usual suspect elite cunts who are fucking up a wonderful thing. The world needs a truly decentralized, peer-to-peer system that cannot be censored and controlled.
Nominated by: Berkshire Huntmaster
