NYtimes Article on Trolls and the internet

[kittyboy]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magaz ... -t.html?hp (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html?hp)

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html?hp

In the beginning there were mainframes and then PCs. Would the central control remain on the mainframe when we would soon all have a Cray on our desks? In the early years all access to the military/university Internet 1 was via CRTs through known mainframe computers on which a known person had a known user id and if you. like, posted on USENET your name and email address were available there as well. Slowly ... the mouse, the world wide "web" (Switzerland), Trumpet Sockets (wsock32.exe), U.Ill Mosaic (netscape, internet explorer) and corporate/general GREED came along and changed the mainframe computer to the conduit ISP putting YOU in charge of your 'identity' over a very reliable protocol.

Anyway it is all not at all by design but a consequence of hardware/software development and the desire of all for success/money and mischief. And I'd rather it all just stay the way it is, for the near long term at least.

Maybe someone didn't do his job when he invented the internet.