look at the beginning founder ofrnet, the netscape as well the entrepreneurs investing into internet companies said it with the internet began and was it was an it, cooperative environment. by all accounts, it was seen as a great equalizer for democracy. it was going going to give information for all people. it was going to slave large corporations and craig competitiveness and local -- create competitiveness and localized areas. it has never been fully practical prior to the internet could become practical. people had the information required to govern their own lives in a social sense and fully participate. that was the high bar of the internet when he began. made, the points i just people said that is what the internet is doing. what i would argue on certain key points in that mythology or dream, what has happened is specifically we have turned in the opposite direction. i would give a couple of examples. one of the great ideas initially was it was going to to be an anonymous media. you cannot be known who you were. did not have to be word about being monitored or people keeping t

. >> guest: if you look at the beginning of the internet, the founder of netscape said that when the internet began when he was working in the early '90s, it was a militantly egalitarian cooperative environment. by all accounts it was a great equalizer for democracy and gave quality for all people and information for all people and it avoided large monopolistic corporations and in general it was going to be a self-government. which had never been fully tactical prior to the internet being practical. people actually had the information required to govern their lives in that sense. so that is a high bar of the internet when it began. i think oftentimes to this day, people say yes, that is what the internet is doing. on certain key points in our mythology, what has happened is that are specific areas where we have turned in the opposite direction. i will give you an example. one of the great ideas is you could go on and not be known who you were so you didn't have to worry about being monitored in the way the internet is developed is for commercial reasons because this is the way that c

. >> guest: well, if you look at the beginning of the internet, the founder of netscape who's one of the entrepreneurs who invests in internet companies, said when he was working on it into the early '90s, office a cooperative environment. by all accounts, it was seen as a great equalizer. it was going to give information equality for all people, it was going to slay tyrannical governments and large monopolistic corporations and produce a much more competitive, localized economy, a centralized economy. and in general it was going to make it such that self-government which had never been fully practical prior to the internet could actually become practical. people would actually have the information required to govern their own lives in a social sense and really fully participate. so that's the high bar of the internet when it began. and i think oftentimes still to this day one of the points i just made people invoke and say, yes, that's what the internet's doing. what i would argue is that on certain key points in that mythology or that dream of the internet, what's happened is there'

a redirect to yahoo's search page because today altavista went the way of netscape and geo cities and the beloved but mostly dead friendster. all dead and buried in that internet graveyard in the cloud. a new upgrade to download every day, better designed improved features and when an old website dies unclicked for years nobody mourns. nobody produces an episode of vh1 "behind the browser." no cyber wall or cell phone light vigil. but there's been too much internet death lately. first the untimely demise of google reader last week and now this. attention must be paid. altavista, laid to rest today at the age of 18. >>> good morning, everybody. right now on "first look." the cleveland three held for a decade, they break their silence. >>> new details surrounding the crash of asiana 214. >>> the muslim brotherhood called for an uprising in egypt after supporters are killed. >>> and incredible images in an active volcano. >>> and the new york city summer where everything is made of ice. good morning, everybody,

a redirect to yahoo's search page because today altavista went the way of netscape and geo cities andad friendster. all now buried in that internet graveyard in the cloud. a new upgrade to download every day, better designed improved features and when an old website dies unclicked for years nobody mourns. nobody produces an episode of vh1 "behind the browser." no cyber wall or cell phone light vigil. but there's been too much internet death lately. first the untimely demise of google reader last week and now this. attention must be paid. altavista, laid to rest today at the age of 18. that does it for us tonight. rachel will be back tomorrow.

a redirect to yahoo's search page because today altavista went the way of netscape and geo cities andad friendster. all now buried in that internet graveyard in the cloud. a new upgrade to download every day, better designed improved features and when an old website dies unclicked for years nobody mourns. nobody produces an episode of vh1 "behind the browser." no cyber wall or cell phone light vigil. but there's been too much internet death lately. first the untimely demise of google reader last week and now this. attention must be paid. altavista, laid to rest today at the age of 18. that does it for us tonight. rachel will be back tomorrow. now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." have a great night. >>> george zimmerman's defense still hasn't used george zimmerman as a witness. they have the only witness who knows exactly what happened that night, and they haven't used him yet. but today they tried to use trayvon martin's father. >> we begin in the courtroom on day 10 of testimony. >> new developments at the trial of george zimmerman. now in its third week. >> any