What will save the internet will probably be a project like the internet that millions of people can flock to at once. I love these kind of romantic articles, but I think they look at it from a romantic point of view.
Millions didn’t flock to the internet at once. People were trash talking Kirk vs Picard in 1987, they were be moaning Eternal September from 1993, in 1996 there was AOL for a few bleeding edge people, but the Internet was useful even with just 30 million people worldwide. even in 2000 the Internet was something Al Gore was waffling on about for the majority of even the western world.
You don’t need to reach a billion people to be useful. Wikipedia didn’t have a billion users when it was first useful, nor did OSM, or slashdot, or alt.Wesley.crusher.die.die.die
