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Am I seeing this right? (in an untangible way)

A parallel view/comparative timeline of Rock n Roll and The Web:

1950s/1960s – BIG bands, getting bigger, mainstream, The Rock and ROLL phenomena begins!

1990s – The Web! The Information Superhighway! The “world at our fingertips”! Big sites and small, quasi-useful sites getting BIG! IPOs, money, hotwords, Silicon Valley Utopia.

1970s – Big, very popular bands. “Untouchable”. They were going to sell (despite true representation of the youth or it's priorities, interests). Just Rock Gods

early 2000's – Social media. Big sites, enormou sites, some surviving the DOT COM Bubble bursting. Turn on your phone, get these apps! Turn on your PC, visit these sites! “Too big to fail”

late 1970's – Punk Rock. The “folk” music of that generation. Punk, Hip Hop, even Techno (to compliment the solo/stag tech generation blooming in that era). People were writing lyrics/music about their struggles. Their times. Small revolutions. Big cultural impact.

2018 (in there) – The Smol Web. People from all over the world, reclaiming The Web. Personal sites, Personal servers. Personal views and opinions and the good/bad consequence of those things within.

Now: well, history is history, what “glosses over” the Smol Web (as far as the average tech user is concerned)? I would imagine (though no idea if accurate (can't predict the future) AI. E.g. Average User™ turns on their phone, gets suggested apps, they install, they use them, that's it.

Though, the Smol Web persists! Much as Punk, Hip Hop, Techno and others did throughout the “glossy” 1980s (Hair Metal, Glam Pop, etc – shown across the airwaves and sold throughout the record shops, but ignoring the True ideas and importance of what the youth had at heart). Until early-1990s (how convenient!) and the Seattle Punk/Grunge scene had it's say. Dominating all, until it's seemingly orgasmic, but tragic, end.

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