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It's time to rebuild the web
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What Was the Internet?
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Was their any substantial backlash to the internet when it first started becoming popular? I can imagine that going from a comparatively disconnected world to one where instantaneous global connection 24/7 were commonplace was a rather massive (and not always positive) shift in many ways.
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The reckless, infinite scope of web browsers
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