It might be a good headline to get attention but the Internet is not shit. When I was first exposed to it (in 1989, even before the World Wide Web was a thing)

It might be a good headline to get attention but the Internet is not shit. When I was first exposed to it (in 1989, even before the World Wide Web was a thing) it blew my mind. My first thought was that this is going to be as powerful as the invention of the wheel. This incredible tool, as might be expected when understanding it's immense scope and potential, has over the years become more and more a mirror of the civilisation that uses it. This of course causes it to include unbelievably huge doses of shit (content which is shallow, stupid, ignorant, petty, immoral, illegal etc.), but also gives us access to an unparalleled abundance of deep, interesting, educational, inspiring and fascinating stuff on any topic at unbelievable speed. Of course you might still find things in libraries that you can't find on the Internet but what I know is that today I can find in seconds what would have taken me days to find once in a library (and this is assuming the library even had enough information on the specific topic I'm interested in). There are things I can (and do) find today and people I can contact with a quick search which I never could have found or known to exist in the "library only" era. It might require honing your search and "shit filtering" abilities but that's a small price to pay for what you get. The article seems to be expressed disappointment of the disappearance of the "good ol' days" but I was never one to reminisce about the "good ol' days", I'm only interested in the good new days and believe that, taking everything into consideration, they're only getting better. Exponentially so.