In the early 1990s, this guy predicted how the Internet would turn out

[gracchus]

This is the flipside of what I discussed in the other topic, because we weren’t careful.

@gracchus

A lot of it was built on a business foundation of sand (hill?), but I still really miss the optimism and opportunity of the dotcom 1.0 days. There was a real sense that a bunch of goofy ideas like this unleashed on the unwalled and interoperable and open-standards based plains of the Internet could change things for the better.

So much, said the Golux, for that.