[brokencog]

Ad's delivered via the Internet ... gee, let's see some time around 1992 I guess I recall the first of them, they got obnoxious shortly after with pop-up's and blinky text.

Which is too say nothing about today's websites has offered anything really new since the first webpage did even before that.

Twitter Revolution? not about twitter, it's about the millions who went into the streets (with and without twitter).

Cloud Sharing? In 1990 all my data was housed in the Cloud, my apps ran in the cloud and I was happy to have a slice of the VAX so I could send messages to my mate in the other computer room.

New Browser features! Yay! stuff it that the browser is already unsafe, slow and cumbersome - make it look Different and call it Better.

The point here is that the Web has always been the get rich scheme for half baked ideas ... as it ever was.

Nowhere ever has any Internet based service been free. Someone Somewhere has had to pay for all of it. The only thing "new" about what this author is pining about is for the Johnny Come Lately who entered the Internet, is they assume too much -- they assume they are entitled to a free service and shouldn't have to be bothered about how it is provided. Just like they are IRL.