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> It was a beautiful mess. As the internet grew up, consumer products stopped trusting their users, and the internet lost its soul.

I think that's the wrong assumption to make - we figured out the language of the internet, and developed a design methodology that worked, though it continues to evolve.



Its the removal of user-designed anything.

Got a facebook page? Same format for everyone. Just another brick in the wall

Got a MySpace page back then? You have a playground to express yourself, you are a human being.


Also, messes like 4chan still exist.

It's just that back in the days 1% of the Internet population would use them and today 0,0001%.

With Smartphones the non-outcasts found the Internet finally interesting and filled it with boring stuff like Instagram and Tinder.




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