Remember the early 00s the idea of the web was a community garden? Spaceship Earth 1994 -2006 by Jeremy Irons clearly illustrated the 'new communication tool among us' and it's Global Neighborhood interactive exhibits. Now it's all comic book crap as if somebody or an AI has decided that's all allowed to be discussed. The mic has been shut down and thrown away!
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The first fall of the 'net was when AOL opened the floodgates for all the normies who could barely run a point-and-drool interface to have access to Usenet and the web at large. We maybe could have weathered that, but in the grand scheme of things it got fucked even harder once smartphones became the norm and it got easier and easier for everyone and their dog to get on the web. In my not so humble opinion, the iPhone really ruined the Internet because it gave every hipster that was stuck in the cult of Apple snobbery easy, immediate access to places like Twitter and tumblr.
And our infrastructure never really got upgraded to handle all the traffic to begin with! We still have barely upgraded from the Bush era!