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For a British kid from an impoverished background this was (early 70s) my Internet, vast range of content, intelligently selected and with capsule reviews/extracts of everything which was included.

When, 20 years later, I first saw the Web this was what I hoped it would become, I was disappointed.

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I felt like the early web lived up to this, though in retrospect it may have already been in quality decline compared to the earlier (Internet&BBS) protocols.

We have taken the wrong path. The Internet we got was not the Internet we wanted. Today we have the Internet through a fog of advertising. It’s been turned into some hellish mix of Tee-Vee advertising and junk-mail pamphlets and of course the DM bots which are just the Internet’s version of robocallers selling insurance, replacement windows, and “government free money, apply now!”.

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