I definitely remember the early web, and the way some of the early "purists" believed the Internet would be "ruined" if commercial interests were allowed. Anybody even thinking about trying to make money from the web was immediately blackballed. "But it costs MONEY to run servers and code web pages!" Well, you shouldn't have a web site if you're not prepared to offer what you have for free.
As you say, small operators were attacked and closed down. Large organizations shrugged it off and kept going.
I like Hive and its communities. It will be interesting to see where we end up!
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I started networking with Compuserve and local BBSes. There were thousands of independent computer support groups at the time.
There was also a huge number of small businesses involved in the early days of the commercial internet.
I hope that internet historians record that these small businesses fell apart because there was an active effort on the part of the intelligentsia and big business to undermine the small businesses.
Unfortunately, the Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 narrative seems to have taken hold. So, the hundreds of thousands of small business the internet produced will likely be lost to history.
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