Seemed like a grand idea at the time

25 years ago today, the internet declared its independence — for better and for worse

Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather…

 

Also seemed sad, in a way, because it clearly couldn’t last. It may have been a “home of the Mind” but it was built on copper and silicon and steel. And it would forseeably threaten governments, and that, clearly, would never do.