<story><title>What is the small web? (2020)</title><url>https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LAC-Tech</author><text>&lt;i&gt;The Big Web has “users” – a term Silicon Valley has borrowed from drug dealers to describe the people they addict to their services and exploit.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This doesn&amp;#x27;t seem like it&amp;#x27;s true. I feel like it came from the unix culture. Unless they got it from drug dealers...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vicda</author><text>This is so painfully bullshit. Imagine the scientists and engineers at bell labs thinking that the operators of their machines are akin to drug addicts.</text></comment>
<story><title>What is the small web? (2020)</title><url>https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LAC-Tech</author><text>&lt;i&gt;The Big Web has “users” – a term Silicon Valley has borrowed from drug dealers to describe the people they addict to their services and exploit.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This doesn&amp;#x27;t seem like it&amp;#x27;s true. I feel like it came from the unix culture. Unless they got it from drug dealers...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>themadturk</author><text>&amp;quot;Users&amp;quot; was a common term for people at PCs in my early networking days (Novell, early &amp;#x27;90s), so it&amp;#x27;s actually much older than the Web. We made jokes about it being the same term used for junkies, but we certainly never meant it in that context. The people who were &amp;quot;addicted&amp;quot; were the ones running the network; the users were happy to leave it all at the end of the day.</text></comment>