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> Whenever I tell civilians that I’m a web designer I get the sense that they place me in that other category, that other internet I noticed as a kid. I can see it in their eyes: Ah, so you’re one of those spammers, huh?

that would be progress. right now they see the web as an "infinite source of knowledge" and proceed to google something and click an amazon link on the page purporting to have the answer.