[ashleyn]

>If the egalitarian ethos of the early web was indeed born of the values of the 60s and 70s, then what values from the 90s created the web of today?

Reckless, "greed-is-good" neoliberalism.

[tonyedgecombe]

I suspect there is some truth in this, in the same way we are commercialising everything in real life we are doing it online as well.