I disagree with your "not sustainable". I think by "very small", you mean to imply it was not scaleable, and I disagree with that, too. Specifically, most use

I disagree with your "not sustainable". I think by "very small", you mean to imply it was not scaleable, and I disagree with that, too. Specifically, most users pay a monthly fee to an internet service provider; this fee is all that would be needed to fund or sustain an internet along the lines of the old old internet -- without ads -- even if the old old internet was scaled to modern numbers of users. Now you are going to try to tell us that the old old internet must have sucked compared to the modern ad-supported internet, right?