This is what the Internet started to do, and seemed to promise. But, as we all lament on HN, the Internet is no longer that which we yearn for. Walled gardens,

This is what the Internet started to do, and seemed to promise. But, as we all lament on HN, the Internet is no longer that which we yearn for. Walled gardens, embedded links, snippets instead of articles, titles instead of papers, ads ads ads. It is almost impossible to find the actual fruits of knowledge among the trash. It wasn't long ago, that you had free access to research, data, results, of studies from around the world. Knowledge unbounded. Its almost hopeless now. How to fix it? (And the best scientific paper resource is 'illegal '.)