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I think maybe back then we all knew it was going to become a corporate ad-ridden tracking nightmare in some capacity. That is why we remember it so fondly perhaps. Places like lemmy/wikis and the odd ole phpbb forum still running still give off at least a bit of the old internet vibe.
I wish that was the only problem with the Internet. I don't think many people realized it would revive fascism and lead to the death of democracy.
Well, the cyberpunk authors seem to have noticed.
They knew