it aged really well I have the opposite reaction: today, it reads like panglossian baloney. In early days of the web, many people had blinders on, because we

it aged really well I have the opposite reaction: today, it reads like panglossian baloney. In early days of the web, many people had blinders on, because we had dreams of the internet bringing the world together in love and harmony, etc. Fewer people are like that now, because social media has made the internet's flaws hard to ignore. It's possible the author himself would have tempered his optimism if he wrote a follow-up article today, but it appears he passed away in 2004 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic_Sussman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic_Sussman) so we'll never know.