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Just got reminded of this talk I gave in 2011. Feels like a lifetime ago.

Watching it back, I cringe every time “”—instead of just —and “users”—instead of people—comes out of my mouth. That, and my naïve embrace of “” and how mistaken I was to value it over free (as in freedom).

You can see I’m starting to question the business model of people farming but it’s so timid; almost an afterthought. But, hey, it’s been (and is) a journey, I guess.

archive.org/details/podcast_fr

Internet ArchiveAral Balkan | The Future is Native [Fronteers 2011] : Aral Balkan : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveThe Internet sits at the head of a long table of technologies that have revolutionised our world. Built on top of the base Internet stack, the World Wide Web...

@aral does it make you wonder what things from your current talks and writings will make you cringe in a decade?
(To be clear, this is not meant as criticism; I'm genuinely curious.)

Aral Balkan

@FiXato Hopefully fewer things. I like to think there’s progress. But ask me again in ten years’ time ;)

@aral

Not much to be ashamed of, when you said what you said at the time it was where we all was in our thinking, and you just pointed at a likely point ahead of us, even then. :)

Here is Aral speaking at Future Of Web Design conference in London 2010 btw:

https://flic.kr/p/87zqgZ

@FiXato

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