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New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: You have one shot to redesign the Internet – what do you change?

Ask HN: You have one shot to redesign the Internet – what do you change?
46 by lowercasename | 95 comments on Hacker News.
This was just an idle conversation we were having at work. Imagine that one day you wake up and you've been sent back in time, where you are now a researcher at DARPA in the early 1960s. You've got the influence to effect fundamental changes in the next sixty years of the Internet's history, and can make your changes any time in the next sixty years - but you know that as soon as you change one thing in history, you'll be sent back to 2021, to continue living in the world you have wrought. How are you going to make the Internet better?

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