I remember "surfing" the web when Netscape was still a beta version. And Eudora was a popular email program. It was fun exploring all the information available--like running loose in a science museum. Poking around, looking at academic sites. Logging in on a bulletin board and discussing things of mutual interest. That was back in the mid to late 80's.
And then things changed... slowly. Netzero became Notzero. Prodigy put a limit on emails. And eventually the internet became a spammer minefield. Not the original place to "share" information, but a marketing frenzy that polutes what the original intent was.
Is this what happens when capitalism takes charge? Like 90 channels of TV, and only a few worthwhile. Is there a way to reclaim the "net," or should we just let it do a feeding frenzy on itself. It's a shame, something that started out so good, and now look at what it's become.