>>718551581
Internet was already full of normalfags back then. In 98 there was a fucking romance movie with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, like the ultimate normiecombo back then.
The internet got fucked by corporations (and feds)
Mostly this though
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>>718542779
Google hired the fucking guy from Yahoo after defeating Yahoo only to go full ad.
Then legacy media started to claw their way in.
Like all those dumb business models are just cable subscriptions and ads.
The internet wasn't like that back then, basically the online world changed into what you'd imagine in a cyberpunk world. Ads everywhere.
Also bots and AI so there is little genuine content.

>>718541697
Artists just use twitter/instagram nowadays. Merrivius and his elf comic would be a modern example of a popular webcomic

>>718541926
Didn't they kill the original founders because they were full on free speech/information or something like that?