> It's faster. It's marginally faster than 20 years ago. There's a 10x raw transfer rate speed up, but I've needed that 5 times for less than 30 in the past w

> It's faster. It's marginally faster than 20 years ago. There's a 10x raw transfer rate speed up, but I've needed that 5 times for less than 30 in the past week. And even then it was 20% of the the max. I don't want 1Gbit/sec of crap. > It's always on. It was always on for me in 2004. > I can host at home, I don't need to host on someone's else server. Which I was doing in 2004. > The web part more secure - most everything is over HTTPS now. Everything is encrypted now, which better protects randos from looking at it, yes. > I can buy almost anything I want online. I though this was great, but was recently reacquainted with how much less work I need to do to see if I liked using something when I played with it in the manner I wanted to use it for. I don't know where I stand on it. > I can easily find information on just about anything. I'd actually say this has gotten a LOT harder than 20 years ago because people keep wanting to sell me things when I'm not looking to buy something. I don't need storefronts when I am looking up how to use something I already own. > I can easily find videos showing me just about anything. I can (formally or informally) learn about any topics, to whatever depth I like. I read faster than I can listen to someone. And if I'm searching for something, I want to find it and then get on with my life. > I can correspond with people all over the world, in real-time. I can work remotely from home. I can do remote support by seeing people's screens and see what they are doing. > [...] I can monitor the health of hardware remotely. These were all things I was doing 20 years ago. Yes, I can now do it from the passenger seat of a car, but those are improvements in infrastructure unrelated to any of the major players on the internet. > But if a few web sites selling stuff is your main objection to the whole internet, then, I suggest you're letting imperfection get in the way of magnificent. Its not just "a few web sites selling stuff", its the fact that "a few web sites selling stuff" have caused everything else to die on the vine.