[JohnWhigham]

They're right though. The Internet was better when it didn't have tons of people giving their unsolicited opinions and corporations coming in and having every single one of their actions be antithetical to the esprit of the WWW. It was better when people had to put in effort to find something and not take 30 seconds to select the first Google-approved search result.

[blowski]

Was it better for those who couldn't use it?

[_Algernon_]

Considering for how many the internet has a negative overall value by turning them into conspiracy nuts and mouth pieces, yes. Yes it was.