# kaal:claim:3808852-043

**Claim.** The founders' initial vision of a truly decentralized internet without central points of failure could not be fulfilled, which is why internet idealists continue to seek technological ways to re-decentralize the internet.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Source quote.**

> Because the initial vision of the founders of the internet, to create a truly decentralized network without central points of failure, could not be fulfilled, the community of internet idealists has been seeking technological ways to decentralize the internet.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralization and Feedback Effects* (2021), VI. Societal Decentralization, page 28

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization and Feedback Effects (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808852

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**Failure mode.** unfulfilled decentralized internet vision  (family: recentralization-drift)

**Topics.** decentralization

**Keywords.** decentralized-internet, central-points-of-failure, re-decentralization, internet-history

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