Jeremy C.’s article What the Old Internet Was and Why it was Better will be on my mind today. Partially because it has some fantastic turns of phrase, partially because it explains a few of the legal and regulatory misfires that have led the internet to be what it is today, and partially because AI economics and wildly inflated valuations are the background radiation of life in 2026. Someone once said to me, “Remember, everything on the internet was put there by someone who wants it to be there. The…