I started networking with Compuserve and local BBSes. There were thousands of independent computer support groups at the time.

There was also a huge number of small businesses involved in the early days of the commercial internet.

I hope that internet historians record that these small businesses fell apart because there was an active effort on the part of the intelligentsia and big business to undermine the small businesses.

Unfortunately, the Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 narrative seems to have taken hold. So, the hundreds of thousands of small business the internet produced will likely be lost to history.

!WINEX