Not at all. That world existed, for the brief interval between 'only people who have access to a computer are people who devoted their careers to it' and 'every

Not at all. That world existed, for the brief interval between 'only people who have access to a computer are people who devoted their careers to it' and 'everybody who can afford $50 a month has access to the Internet'. In that time, only a few people had access to computing and network resources, but they were all well-educated, reasonably well-paid and curious, with lots of motivation to help each other out and little motivation to undermine each other. It might have remained just a brief blip of history, except that so many technologies developed during that time, designed with the security assumptions of that time (i.e. practically none), became the fundamental underpinnings of our modern world, like MS-DOS and Unix.