The thing AI miss about the internet from the late 2000s and early 2010s was having so much useful data available, searchable, and scrappable. Even things like "which of my friends are currently living in New York?" are impossible to find now.

I always assumed this was a once-in-history event. Did this cycle of data openness and closure happen before?

AllI want is a secure system where it's easy to do anything I want. Is that so much to ask?

XKCD for everything!