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Could Facebook Become The Next Microsoft?: an otherwise astute analysis killed by the predilection of technology journalists to want to cement their arguments with stupid analogies. Can’t we just judge things in situ instead of having to contextualize things against each other? Or is that asking too much? Is Facebook the next M$? No, Facebook is Facebook and is actually using what the Internet was designed to be, oh, 26 years ago.

To Wit:

” As strategic and tactical computer communication networks are
developed and deployed, it is essential to provide means of
interconnecting them and to provide standard interprocess
communication protocols which can support a broad range of
applications. ”

” As noted above, the primary purpose of the TCP is to provide reliable,
securable logical circuit or connection service between pairs of
processes. To provide this service on top of a less reliable internet
communication system requires facilities in the following areas:

Basic Data Transfer
Reliability
Flow Control
Multiplexing
Connections
Precedence and Security”

I of course am referencing RFC793, TCP
or how about this?

” The internet protocol is specifically limited in scope to provide the
functions necessary to deliver a package of bits (an internet
datagram) from a source to a destination over an interconnected system
of networks.”

” The internet protocol treats each internet datagram as an independent
entity unrelated to any other internet datagram. There are no
connections or logical circuits (virtual or otherwise).”

This is of course, RFC791, Internet Protocol

If you want to know the true value of Facebook, it is a company which hasn’t forgotten the purpose and implication of the past in looking toward the future.