>The old Internet also had a relatively technical barrier to entry Perhaps very briefly. Once it went public AOL opened it up to anybody in a pretty short amou

>The old Internet also had a relatively technical barrier to entry Perhaps very briefly. Once it went public AOL opened it up to anybody in a pretty short amount of time. >the MBAs twiddle their fingers thinking how to exploit every last corner for profit and the whole thing goes to hell. Result: the current Internet. I think ad blockers really did it in; the web anyway. Every year, the ad networks kept getting increasingly intrusive because of that greed and a technical solution was found and widely adopted. Unfortunately, that removed quite a bit of funding/incentive for anyone running websites.