Internet was still an alien thing to a lot of people throughout the 2000s, and if you think about it - that’s only 14 years ago! And look at this article - it’s reflecting on the good old days as though it happened thousands of years ago.

Yes, the problem definitely lies in social media and its evil attention-grabbing algorithms, but the fact that people never got to experience the old-school Internet also plays a role in this. People just don’t know any better!

For a lot of folks, the web is merely a source of news, a means to pay bills, and to engage in mindless short-form entertainment.

I am all for bringing back individual sites and communities back tho!

Is money the real root problem of this? Not just from an advertising perspective but also from the perspective of a person.

Fundamentally, the Internet provides freedom of communication with the entire world, but these days we can hardly engage with that world because the ability to support oneself financially comes first. As such, you either don’t spend a lot of time online, or you spend your entire time online chasing the cheddar…