Sigh, I remember this other internet and I wasn't even a kid any more then. I remember half of it going down because of the Morris worm. Actually noticing tha

Sigh, I remember this other internet and I wasn't even a kid any more then. I remember half of it going down because of the Morris worm. Actually noticing that things had become unresponsive, before the news of the worm broke. And that was a big deal, a program abusing the wide-open, trusted nature of the internet then, and yet, the Morris worm was more part of the culture than an attack on it. I remember staring in disbelief as the same Canter & Siegel spam showed up in every single Usenet newsgroup to which I was subscribed, and I remember the firestorm of repercussions, little realizing at the time that the spam was the new normal, and the outrage would over time get lost in the noise. I remember enthusiastically making my own personal web site, my own little contribution to the "old" internet, and how happy I was to finally get some hosting that didn't put a banner ad - a single static banner ad - at the top of my site. I remember Facebook being mostly about friends keeping in touch, and posting life events and cute pictures of the kids. The "old" internet went away in stages. Or more correctly, got drowned out. It was maybe 1% of the size of the current internet, and if you look hard enough it's probably mostly still there... just drowned out by 99% that is noise.