Information Reformation: How the Internet explosion paralleled Luther’s Reformation

Bill Petro
3 min readOct 31, 2022

I wrote the following article over two and a half decades ago when I was a technology evangelist at Sun Microsystems. Back in the mid-’90s we experienced the early part of the first wave of “The Web.” Today newer Web technologies have expanded what was largely a “reader-oriented” phenomenon into a dynamic read-write participatory social platform.

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Bill Petro

Writer, historian, technologist. Former Silicon Valley tech exec. Author of fascinating articles on history, tech, pop culture, & travel. https://billpetro.com