On a social front, the internet was better in the early 2000s, as a last-ditch resort, something you could mess around on intermittently, not the mainstay of communique it is now. Other people can talk about the phone zombies and the huge amount of screen time decaying intelligence.
Economically speaking, all the digital services don't necessarily create any material wealth, asides from modems, computers, etc. but it does employ people. Ordering food on the internet might aid efficiency to a business, but it questionably doesn't add anything else. In a strange way of thinking it could be considered an enormous amount of human capital sunk into what amounts to a majority weight of gacha games and pornography, with 5-10% being projects like Wikipedia preserving public knowledge.
>>11158195Share of internet has clearly gone from decentralized independent projects to mass conglomerates like Google and Amazon taking in and handling the overwhelming bulk of all activity.
