after hearing mark fisher slow cancellation of the future, i believed there was more to it than just an eternal september. there was a real utopian feeling of

after hearing mark fisher slow cancellation of the future, i believed there was more to it than just an eternal september. there was a real utopian feeling of the early internet. one i remember. this was lost due to the commercialization and corporatization of the web. the internet began as a place for creativity, freedom, exploration andlater became dominated by profit-driven platforms, surveillance capitalism, and monopolies like google and facebook. neoliberalism turned the internet into a tool for consumption and data extraction, stifling the initial sense of openness and possibility, and replacing it with controlled, market-driven environments. this shift eroded the hope for a radically different digital future. and that is (part) of the reason i miss the 90s - 00s internet. the other side of it is the emergence of the complex web. where things that used to be simple are now endlessly complicated, and working on the web feels like building a jenga tower on a plane in turbulence.