Even moreso than "caring about preserving content for the future" versus "not caring about it" there's another interesting perspective shift here. Second,

Even moreso than "caring about preserving content for the future" versus "not caring about it" there's another interesting perspective shift here. Second, he showed me what he mainly does. Basically it was a handful of group chats via Signal and WhatsApp, a whole bunch of web comic websites, and some YouTube series. The "early internet" was in part based around those lofty ideas baked into the original World Wide Web: a giant, ever-growing hyperlinked network of information. It wasn't just a way to communicate; you were contributing to something larger than yourself. Even if you merely made blog posts about your favorite breakfast cereals, you felt as though you were adding to this public, global network of knowledge. Everything on the web was public by default. And even if your content was bad, or simply banal, you were still doing something positive by adding to this giant mass of information. Bad or banal content wasn't inherently a problem, because others would simply choose not to link to it. Maybe somebody would find your cereal musings useful some day and if not, no harm done. Now, for better or worse, people view the internet "only" as a publishing and/or communication and/or shopping tool. Nothing wrong with that but it is definitely a paradigm shift back to something a little less ambitious than we aimed for in the 90s.