[pjc50]

I've been trying to work out what the end date of the good internet was, and if there was a trigger event, and I'm starting to think it was somewhere between Tahrir Square (2011) and Euromaidan (2014); once the political internet became really effective, it had to be countered by those in power.

[sharpshadow]

2011 was the release year of bootstrap so that would fit quite well.

[interestica]

Asteroid 2024 YR4 (the one that might hit Earth in 2032) also made close passes in 2012, 2016, and 2020. …