Happy 25th anniversary to this Daily Mail article from the year 2000, proclaiming that internet "may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it".

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@stefan The Daily Mail was not all that wrong. Most did give up on the Internet, choosing to lock themselves into abysmal megacorp siloes instead. The Internet’s breath has been very shallow for a very long time now.

We used to have open protocols, open standards, vendor- and platform independent communications. We now have gmail, SLOP instead of info, whatever Microsoft and Meta inflict upon mankind, and a handful of other nazi propaganda channels.