> the semantic web
never happened. RDF died and turned in to mulch. then it got reinvented, partly, by facbook and twitter as ways to keep you in the doomscroll instead of as ways for your computer to help you understand the page. 🇫

> connecting everything to everything
never happened. IP6 is still a fuck. we ran out of IP4. everything is firewalled. nobody SIPs to each other. you just go to zuckbook and get the corporate moderated experience. or discord and get the furry-chinese corporate moderated experience. i can't actually fucking just call your phone.

> routing around censorship
it actually doesn't. we centralized around pirate hubs and shit. and they just sued those. "be in russia" isn't protection.

> separation of content and style
absolutely failed that one up the ass.

it is painful to know that everything greybeards did, was completely colonized :blobcatpensive2: