Suppose the internet was still a major success and was sustainable without compromising for commercial interests. How do you think societies around the world may have changed, or not?

Consider the optimistic angles of such an unencumbered space extended out from the internet’s earlier days to the present. What if some of those possibilities had been realized?

    • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com
      5·
      1 year ago

      There were books : “the best 500 Web sites!” filled with links you had to type yourself.

      Half of them didn’t work of course.

      • ExtraMedicated@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Shit, I remember having one of those. Way back when we used that free dialup service from K-Mart where they had an ad banner at the top of the browser.