The Internet is a very high tech place when you think of all the underlying protocols, built on a geek's culture valuing open communication, open protocols, etc. which would have made the founding fathers of the Age of Enlightenment proud.
But then with the advent of #SocialMedia, the #internet #culture underwent a massive retrogression back to medieval thinking - eschewing open protocols with the advent of mobile "apps", building proprietary castles with "walled gardens", and it turned into a big high-school popularity contest for likes and followers.
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