Post #671304

The focus of early web was text (http is #hypertext after all). Text is powerful. You can share poetry with text. Searching text made Google a giant. Sharing snippets of text made Twitter a minor giant. But once money chased eyeballs, the focus changed to visual media. Less cognitive load. Text requires literacy, image does not. The early "lack of vision" was corrected with acquisitions. Google bought Youtube. Facebook bought Instagram. Finally TikTok came along. Pulp fiction trumped poetry.