Thanks for sharing your feedback. It seems like you’re passionate about this topic and super glad to have you here. :-)

You make a compelling argument for Web 1.0. You’re right, I didn’t focus on email, messaging, and search engines as much as I could have in this article. I tried to keep it as brief as possible.

Email, search engines and messaging might have once been decentralized but big tech quickly made it a dirty tool for collecting user data even in the 1990s—shockingly enough. If everyone hosted their own servers to run all their own services, it might have been different. It was just too impractical to become mainstream.

And then unfortunately big tech came into the picture with user friendly services that ruined that reality.

Web 1.0 might have had trace elements of decentralization, but big tech quickly turned that dream into a nightmare long before we got Web 2.0.

Let’s hope that Web 3.0 could go back to it’s roots and keep the good.