Oatmeal Joey Arnold (@JoeyArnoldVN)

The future of the Internet requires the following 4 things, cars, roads, stations, and islands. ___ Using this analogy, islands represent different websites. Facebook would be more like a continent as opposed to a small body of land. The planet in essence represents the overall infrastructure of the world wide web. ___ Cars represent accounts, avatars, profile sections, the personal information of users, their identities online. The old system is train carts as opposed to cars. For example, your Facebook account is like a train cart that is stuck in that prison. It is like sitting on a bus. Cars can go anywhere. Carts don't even have engines. Cars are like islands in some ways. In other words, cars represent the profile aspect of websites. There are some examples of systems like this already such as Dissenter which would let people comment on any web page indirectly like an add-on. And another example would be Disqus which is like a third-party comment app which websites can install. This allows for you to log into Disqus and then comment on different websites. But the Dissenter system allows you to comment on any website. But only those with Dissenter can see the comments. I would love for a hybrid model of the two.