My First Impressions of Web3
&gt; People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will<p>That&#x27;s one believably accurate summary. But here&#x27;s another: rather than focus on trying to make it easy, cheap and simple for everyone to run their own servers, the tech world spent 1996-today instead focused on offering to take care of this for everybody else, for a price.<p>Everybody concluded in the late 90s that the &quot;nobody wants to run their own servers&quot; claim was self-evidently true, and so all the tech development went into extending server capabilities, extending browser capabilities, building hosting services and infrastructure, and almost no effort went into making running a web server as easy as, oh, I don&#x27;t know, running Excel.<p>Imagine a version of things where the server was almost a toy-like appliance. Hard to do? Yeah, I know, it&#x27;s hard. But then again, in 1996 browsers with Web USB, Web Workers, Web Assembly and the like would have seemed impossibly hard and yet here we are.<p>We don&#x27;t have it because we chose not to build it.