The Web was like that once. Full of viruses and scams as well. Pretty silly idea too - who needs to throw a bunch of numbers around in a giant tube at the speed

The Web was like that once. Full of viruses and scams as well. Pretty silly idea too - who needs to throw a bunch of numbers around in a giant tube at the speed of light? It would require decades of work and global coordination to ever make an idea like that viable for the masses.