From Manchester to Barcelona: Building a better story about the internet

[firstbase]

https://logicmag.io/nature/from-manchester-to-barcelona/

[laurencerowe]

A somewhat confusing title given the Cooperative movement traces its roots to the Rochdale Pioneers, also from Greater Manchester.

[C1sc0cat → laurencerowe]

And also back to Italy which had some proto worker coops.

It also ignores the underlying cultural aspects in Spain which helped Mondragon et al flower.

[IAmEveryone]

I want to vehemently disagree, stating that Zuckerberg deserves the spoils of Facebook's success more than any of the interchangeable programmers and businesspeople that worked for him.

...but I'm having a hard time making the same argument for all those who came before Zuckerberg, inventing TCP and GIF and even Geocities and MySpace.

With all those parts existing, wasn't it just a matter of time until someone would come up with something like FB, or better? Doesn't that make Zuck just as interchangeable as his database administrators and trademark lawyers?