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Dialing straight into a university machine.
No toll booth. No portal. No account beyond access.
That was the internet before enclosure.
Public infrastructure. Knowledge as a commons.
Ecclesiastes 1:9
“What has been will be again.”
This isn’t nostalgia.
It’s architecture.
Systems oscillate:
open → captured → brittle → reset
commons → enclosure → collapse → commons
FREE access wasn’t an accident.
It was the default—before intermediaries learned to tax access.
Published at
2026-01-20 18:12:27 UTCEvent JSON
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