I remember when the Internet was good. No. It was amazing.
The first time I used the Internet, we could count the number of nodes on the network as less than a 100 000. The web hadn’t been invented yet and as soon as I experienced it myself, through some scrappy tools running on a university Unix box, I was hooked.
I knew it would change our lives. And it did.
I didn’t anticipate it becoming what it is today.
We’ve got all the stuff we dared to dream about, but naively, we believed it would come with none of the mess that humans seem to bring to the party.
I’m not sure how I feel about the Internet today.
I sometimes think that we should switch it off now and again to reset it.
We can’t, of course. And we won’t.
The Internet might switch us off, however.
16 January 2025 — French West Indies