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we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.

NOT A SINGLE FUCKING THING. There was already so much to read, look at, learn, explore, collage, so much weirdness and trueness and falseness and brilliance on the internet. And it got fucked up not because people wanted to earn money, but because a few people were determined to earn a LOT of money

even things like g**gle maps, which used to be AMAZING and now is obstructive, obfuscating, all but useless advertising and misinformation bullshit - even big coordination things like that CAN BE DONE without the comemierda companies - wikipedia, among others, shows that.

Plus it has commercials even though we're paying subscriptions.

and half of them are commercials for premium designed to be annoying so we'll pay for premium

The internet was and in some places still is great because people love interacting and making art and sharing what they just saw in their home town or on their travels and scribing elaborate rants and playing games and making friends and meeting new people and inventing personae and collaborating an

I'll say it again: WE DO NOT NEED THESE COMEMIERDAS AND THEIR WASTEFUL LYING POLLUTING COMEMIERDA COMPANIES FOR A SINGLE THING. The internet is us.

I remember being in chatrooms talking about books and X-Files and having a great time. Some of them set up auto-boot for "bad words" that didn't recognize if the bad word was part of a longer word, so I'd mention Michael Moorcock and get booted, and come back in laughing at the silliness of it.

100%. I was temping in MIT Sloan's student services office when Mosaic first came out; we got a demo, & they wanted me to build the first web page for the office (the staff was SUPER technophobic, which was a source of real puzzlement), so they let me play around. Dork that I am, I was like, WHOA...

I can just "go" to the WHOI and check out their whale research? AMAZING. Errr, no. There were links—so many links—but very little actual information behind them yet. Links to links to links. People happily connecting things! And there was art, of questionable value maybe, & personal web pages,