One of the unsettling thoughts I have had recently is simply this:

This. Right now. From maybe roughly 1995. To maybe 5 years from now in the future. Is the Golden Age of the Internet. It will go downhill from there, when the Corporate Interests bludgeon out the general small “a” Anarchist – tinged DIY attitude that came with initial Internet Culture.

I pick 1995 as a date because there were enough people not totally immersed in the world of tech to make it a more worthwhile visit to surf about by that time. I remember some students at high school, circa 1998, who complained that the Internet was a lot more interesting before everyone else was online — this small cadre of geeks who were online in the early 1990s. I know there are people out there who were with it in some computer science lab at a University in the late 70s, to which I say “Thwack”. But my point is that to a lay person, even one with esoteric interests, it… really wasn’t that interesting a place. Do the usenet searches all you want, it’s a lot of languages nobody speaks.

Somewhere is amiss that is something that is akin to the TeleCommunications Act of 1996. I don’t know how a President Al Gore would handle this. He invented the Internet, and I’m only half facetious when I say that. But he would be the successor to the Clinton legacy. It may be that these things are inevitable, and they march as the Globalist Leviathan Government does, regardless of who is in power.

5 years from now we may be needing to set an alternate Internet to circumvent the madness that our corporate masters have deigned for the lowest common denominator to enjoy for the Regular Internet.

We’ll see how everything develops.

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