[hnpolicestate]

Second question. Are there any other naive millennials who legitimately believed like me that Gmail, Maps etc was just corporate altruism back in the mid-late 00's?

Looking back I feel so stupid lol. But I really thought these technology companies were doing something alien to how corporations behaved in the "dark ages". Gullible.

[rakoo]

I'm still waiting for the revival of Google Wave. But I don't think we were simply naive: as we grew up we understood the social and political aspects of it all that weren't taught massively, unlike Google's niceness. We can't blame ourselves for not knowing stuff that was voluntarily kept away.

[gmuslera]

It could had been, back in the day, when the "Not be evil" was Google's motto. That not anymore. Nothing last forever, specially good intentions.