Y'all talking like the early internet had everything figured out, and modern e-Society is some kind of degenerate form of that gilded past. It wasn't that great. Nothing was standardized, barriers to entry were unacceptably high, and people with technical knowledge held massive advantages over everyone else. This ain't no "Make WWW Great Again."
It's like the tech utopists seamlessly transitioned from saying "the future will be beautiful" to saying "the past was glorious" without ever thinking about the fact that what they'd imagined wasn't feasible from the start.
I don't care what the rules of the internet were in 1980 half so much as I care what they should be in 2018. And I'm an advocate of a historical perspective, but it's not history if the good things are all you mention. (That's called propaganda.)
@u2764 I remember 1990's internet - it was nothing but disconnects and crappy websites
@u2764 that's the same problem we have with the Constitution.