An aside, what made all these things work so well is that they were empty inside. Almost skeletal. Hard to believe there isn't more to it. I asked one of my mentors how this could be and he said it has to be that way. If it's complex it can't work until it's empty. These days we have another way to describe this, my friend and former colleague David Weinberger called it Small Pieces, Loosely Joined. I've never heard a better description of the architecture of the Internet.
must be a line from blade runner...
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