
The Internet, the digital glue that holds the world together, allowing for people across the planet to meet each other, bridging cultural gaps, and greasing the wheels of commerce. With all these intersecting lines and junctions, it's small wonder that the Internet is nicknamed 'the Web.' This sobriquet is far more appropriate than anyone could have ever realized.
What was once a grand hope to provide a form of liberation to mankind has become an insidious snare that entraps us all. Bastions of creativity and social watering holes either slowly died out or were murdered by scheming profiteers. Promises of convenience and wealth rang out like a siren song as businesses grew and the internet began to calcify into determined shapes with few major players.
As the consolidation marched on, a flood came with it. The newfound convenience allowed the internet to be flooded with cheap goods, both in price and in quality, and vibrant worlds of creativity were drowned out in a sludge of bland, corporate friendly slop that guaranteed profits at the price of soul. We are driven to distraction by algorithm formulated rage and apathy with no escape in sight. All the while at the edges of the Web, predators rub their hands together as they dream malicious plots. The spiders scheme to suck of dry of our data, our finances, and even our very life essence as we are surrounded yet alone and bored yet surrounded by entertainment...
What was once a grand hope to provide a form of liberation to mankind has become an insidious snare that entraps us all. Bastions of creativity and social watering holes either slowly died out or were murdered by scheming profiteers. Promises of convenience and wealth rang out like a siren song as businesses grew and the internet began to calcify into determined shapes with few major players.
As the consolidation marched on, a flood came with it. The newfound convenience allowed the internet to be flooded with cheap goods, both in price and in quality, and vibrant worlds of creativity were drowned out in a sludge of bland, corporate friendly slop that guaranteed profits at the price of soul. We are driven to distraction by algorithm formulated rage and apathy with no escape in sight. All the while at the edges of the Web, predators rub their hands together as they dream malicious plots. The spiders scheme to suck of dry of our data, our finances, and even our very life essence as we are surrounded yet alone and bored yet surrounded by entertainment...
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