We will eventually get to a point where everybody is publishing content over arcane but decentralized protocols that may or may not be supported by their ISPs,

We will eventually get to a point where everybody is publishing content over arcane but decentralized protocols that may or may not be supported by their ISPs, or with content easily easily discoverable otherwise. It will take the emergence of aggregators and archivers to find and package access to this content in a convenient form while also filtering out the spam. When that happens, it will be 1996 again, and we'll be sharing stuff over NNTP and reading it through entities like dejanews. It was a solid plan. A lot of old Usenet content is still around, which is more than can be said about content shared on privately-owned forums or Facebook.