Posted 5 months ago
Oh No He Didn’t!
Bo Peabody wrote a controversial article titled “Facebook and Twitter Will Always Be Crappy Businesses”. He is the founder of the old “make your ugly page” company Tripod. Kinda like Geocities, which was also ugly. Anyway I guess they were reflective of their times.
So turns out Tripod is still in business and making like $350K a month. And Peabody uses that to write a long article about how Tripod is like Facebook and Twitter and they are all crappy businesses.
Peabody concludes his article with this timeless gem:
“We can’t let social networks wither and die as Geocities did. The socio-political value of Tripod, Facebook, and Twitter is just too great, far greater in fact than their economic value. Can you imagine a world without these sites…a world where the freedom to express yourself and communicate with others efficiently, privately, and in multiple formats does not exist?”
Umm, wait a minute. You did not just use Tripod in the same sentence as Facebook and Twitter. Also yes I can imagine a world without Tripod and also please let it die so people can’t create ugly Tripod pages just like they used to do with ugly Geocities. The web doesn’t need any more tasteless pages.
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