The Internet can be saved

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This round's topic: The Internet Can be saved

It might just be weapons-grade millennial nostalgia, but the internet really did seem better when all we needed was a profile song, an aggressively customised wallpaper, and a place to post cryptic song lyrics after a breakup. No matter how bad your day was, you still had a friend and that friend was Tom from Myspace. 

The youths will never know the thrill of illegally downloading Kiss from a Rose by Seal on Napster and accidentally giving the family computer seventeen new diseases. They’ll never know the sense of decadence of asking Jeeves a question, or the exhilaration of logging into chatRoulette to ask a Brazilian teenager what the weather is like there. 

Now the internet infested with link rot, digital decay and website obsolescence; enshitification driven by recursively nested AIs; swallowing and regurgitating their own…