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Oct 01, 2026, 11:32 PM
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I'm not yet even close to 40, yet I still believe I am one of the "people who built the World Wide Web", in the sense that I've been posting to it for more than 20 years (there are still old forum posts online that I wrote at the age of 10), i.e. before it was something the general public did a lot.
I'm on the one hand proud of how much it has grown and how much more popular it has become; and on the other hand, worried that this has caused governments around the world to pay a lot more attention to it and limit our freedom on it through age verification laws and similar...