On: The Internet Slum: is abandoning the Internet the next big thing? (2004)

[blitzar]

> The author seems to have harboured the idea that internet was good only back when it was for a select few.

I mean ... not wrong.

[InsideOutSanta → blitzar]

But the decline is not because "stupid people" started using it. The reason is that more people started using it, which made it of tremendous commercial interest and brought all of the dysfunctions of an unregulated free market.