Evidence

Format Online paper / PDF

"The Domain Name System replaced dependence on a centrally maintained host list with a distributed hierarchical naming system."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 8: THE SHIELD OF SCREWTAPE Grounded Tribalism

Source title RFC 1034: Domain Names - Concepts and Facilities

Source authors P. Mockapetris

Source year 1987

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"Project Xanadu was designed so owners could receive royalties when portions of their documents were reused."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 8: THE SHIELD OF SCREWTAPE Grounded Tribalism

Source title Xanadu Australia

Source authors Xanadu Australia

Source year 2026

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"HTTP 402 remains reserved for future use in the modern HTTP standard."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 8: THE SHIELD OF SCREWTAPE Grounded Tribalism

Source title RFC 9110: HTTP Semantics

Source authors R. Fielding; M. Nottingham; J. Reschke

Source year 2022

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"HTTP/1.1 included a 402 Payment Required status code but left it reserved for future use rather than defining a payment mechanism."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 8: THE SHIELD OF SCREWTAPE Grounded Tribalism

Source title RFC 2068: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1

Source authors R. Fielding; J. Gettys; J. Mogul; H. Frystyk; T. Berners-Lee

Source year 1997

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Book / Offline paper

"Early network visions included broader shared-resource capabilities than the eventual core Internet stack standardized."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 8: THE SHIELD OF SCREWTAPE Grounded Tribalism

Source title The Lost Dao

Source authors E. Glen Weyl; Audrey Tang; ⿻ Community

Source year 2024

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Book / Offline paper

"Private companies became major providers of identity, payment, and cloud capabilities that were not universal features of the core Internet protocol stack."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 8: THE SHIELD OF SCREWTAPE Grounded Tribalism

Source title The Lost Dao

Source authors E. Glen Weyl; Audrey Tang; ⿻ Community

Source year 2024

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Book / Offline paper

"The transition away from NSFNET shifted core Internet connectivity toward commercial infrastructure."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 8: THE SHIELD OF SCREWTAPE Grounded Tribalism

Source title The Lost Dao

Source authors E. Glen Weyl; Audrey Tang; ⿻ Community

Source year 2024

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"NSF shut down the NSFNET backbone in 1995 as commercial Internet infrastructure expanded."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 8: THE SHIELD OF SCREWTAPE Grounded Tribalism

Source title Birth of the Commercial Internet - NSF Impacts

Source authors U.S. National Science Foundation

Source year 2024

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"By 2012, 75 percent of Linux kernel development was performed by developers paid for their work."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 8: THE SHIELD OF SCREWTAPE Grounded Tribalism

Source title The Linux Foundation Releases Annual Linux Development Report

Source authors The Linux Foundation

Source year 2012

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"Under Satya Nadella, Microsoft open-sourced its full server-side .NET stack and expanded it to Linux and macOS."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 8: THE SHIELD OF SCREWTAPE Grounded Tribalism

Source title Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform, adds new development capabilities with Visual Studio 2015, .NET 2015 and Visual Studio Online

Source authors Microsoft

Source year 2014

Confidence high

Importance high