I look at the history of the internet, from ARPANET & NSFNET, through privatization, to Tim-Berners Lee, Yahoo, Netscape, Google, eBay, and Facebook, examining Microsoft's antitrust court case and their battle against Open Source and Free Software, Bill Gate's Open Letter to Hobbyists and the leaked Halloween Documents. Then we take a look at the emergence of Surveillance Capitalism, and how platforms like AirBnb & Uber coopt the idea of the community and lobby politicians. Finally, we take a look at some alternatives. Thank you to https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbbsW7_Esx8QZ8PgJ13pGxw https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCecF2icZlEIJ__9XS6woPGw https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxt2r57cLastdmrReiQJkEg https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC738SsV6BSLUVvMgKnEFFzQ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_V9wKk1Dd2rpZ4fxj7pKXA https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4V_jMdRbbTrmBVJB6FDzgw https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAMNEnixjT-RO9KiDb3E2iw for their help with this video. Bibliography: https://lewwaller.com/how-the-internet-was-stolen/ Chapters: 00:00 – Introduction to the History of the Internet 04:06 – Building the Net 20:37 – The Browser Wars (Microsoft vs the United States) 44:35 – The Californian Ideology (eBay, Yahoo, Google and the Libertarian Mind) 01:07:26 – The Raiding of Privacy (Surveillance Capitalism) 01:18:05 – Facebook 01:26:07 – The Theft of the Community (Airbnb & Uber) 01:40:31 – No Place (Utopian Dreams) 01:49:38 – Open Source vs Microsoft 01:59:24 – Conclusion: Politics, Policy, and Alternatives Then & Now is FAN-FUNDED! Support me on Patreon and pledge as little as $1 per video: http://patreon.com/user?u=3517018 Or send me a one-off tip of any amount and help me make more videos: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=JJ76W4CZ2A8J2 Buy on Amazon through this link to support the channel: https://amzn.to/2ykJe6L Follow me on: Facebook: http://fb.me/thethenandnow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thethenandnow/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/lewlewwaller Subscribe to the podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/then-now-philosophy-history-politics/id1499254204 https://open.spotify.com/show/1Khac2ih0UYUtuIJEWL47z Credits: Babbage Engine video - Seth Ladd, CC BY 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Pierre Omydar photo - Joi 15:42, 2 August 2007 (UTC), CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Yahoo Sign, Beraldo Leal from Natal / RN, Brazil, CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Page & Brinn photo, Ehud Kenan, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Yahoo sign photograph, Sebastian Bergmann, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Napster Screenshot, Njahnke, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Sean Fanning, Joi Ito, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Metallica photo, Kreepin Deth, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Bill Gates portrait, By Kuhlmann /MSC - https://securityconference.org/en/medialibrary/asset/bill-gates-1523-18-02-2017/, CC BY 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=100184908 Richard Stallman Photograph, Sam Williams, CC BY-SA 3.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/, via Wikimedia Commons GNU Manifesto, Raghavendra Kamath, CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Linus Torvalds photo, Unknown photographer who sold rights to the picture to linuxmag.com, CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/, via Wikimedia Commons Wikipedia globe, Slashme, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Wikimania, Rory O'Connor, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Bill Gates photograph, Kees de Vos from The Hague, The Netherlands, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Mark Andreessen photo, JD Lasica, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons AOL disc, Thiago A. from Brazil, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Ebay photo, Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons