We here. Most of us (by age) at least. We have witnessed the entire lifetime of the useful internet. We saw as it rose and became useful and we are seeing it sink into the mire of easily-generated shit and become useless. We saw web search become a force for good (information availability) and we saw web search become useless trash. As the cost to produce shit drops, it will only get worse. The internet had a good run. The future, if any, is in closed communities by invitation only. However, that isn’t the Internet we knew and loved. <hat off in respect for the departed>