My #1 frustration with the evolution of technology over the past quarter century: I’m nearly certain that there was a window—say around 2009—after IE’s dominat

My #1 frustration with the evolution of technology over the past quarter century: I’m nearly certain that there was a window—say around 2009—after IE’s domination had disintegrated through Microsoft’s legal woes & complacency, but before the web’s reorientation to mobile and Chrome-first monoculture, when it would have been possible for a real set of standards and infrastructure for world-wide distributed hash tables and catalogs thereof to emerge and take hold. But that window closed, probably because the most attractive consumer use case was piracy, and no big players wanted to dive into that morass. Oh well.