I wasn’t around for the 80s/90s internet, but the 00s/10s internet was best where it grew in the structures created by the 80s/90s internet instead of the new corporate web2.0 scams being hawked.
Where the internet grew in the structures of the 80s/90s internet was a lot more diverse than the echo chambers that were the alternative and flooded the world with hate and misinformation.
The structures of the 80s/90s internet were egalitarian, and were just missing a diverse population for the first few decades. The problem is that as newcomers joined, they got fed into gatekeeping and abusive platforms that kept people segregated into echo chambers. Corporate takeover of the web killed the egalitarian dream of the 80s/90s internet.
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I wasn’t around for the 80s/90s internet, but the 00s/10s internet was best where it grew in the structures created by the 80s/90s internet instead of the new corporate web2.0 scams being hawked.
Where the internet grew in the structures of the 80s/90s internet was a lot more diverse than the echo chambers that were the alternative and flooded the world with hate and misinformation.
The structures of the 80s/90s internet were egalitarian, and were just missing a diverse population for the first few decades. The problem is that as newcomers joined, they got fed into gatekeeping and abusive platforms that kept people segregated into echo chambers. Corporate takeover of the web killed the egalitarian dream of the 80s/90s internet.