I feel that my first years of Internet and computers was kinda like the "Age of Innocence" where you would get to explore something with an enormous potential, still in its infancy, where lots of people like me where trying to figure out what to do with it. Nowadays, referring to the Internet, everything comes with a grain of salt for monetary reasons. I cannot trust in every new technology that comes everyday like I used to.
I think this is one of the reasons why I don't feel excited like before. Plus I think the walled garden mobile platforms also contributed a lot to loose my excitement. I used to be a hardcore Linux fan and I lost completely my hope on Linux Desktop years ago.