I’d say the real problem is that social media platforms became the predominant publishing mechanism now. There was a time when millions of people had their own

I’d say the real problem is that social media platforms became the predominant publishing mechanism now. There was a time when millions of people had their own home pages, and now they’ve been replaced with templated social network posts. Even tumblr and blogger were better in the sense that there was some diversity and of course GeoCities while centralized, allowed people much greater content control. The Dark Ages are the fact that Twitter and public Facebook pages eT al, won’t be backed up by Archive.org and decades of human culture will vanish one day when these sites go the way of GeoCities. The rising appification of everything behind app stores also mean the death of content preservation. I can still load the first Web page ever published, I can still run spacejam.com, but tens of thousands of 32bit apps have disappeared from app stores never to be runnable again. I can run 8bit and 16bit apps on emulators from my childhood, but can’t run games I enjoyed on iOS just a few years ago. Death of culture.