30 years ago, the web emerged from the Matrix to change the world. But have we forgotten its original vision? Daniel Kehoe recalls the early days of the web.

There is a growing discontent around the current state of the World Wide Web. Web 1.0 felt like a place of freedom and creativity. Maybe I'm being romantic, for sure had to have its issues... But remember the whimsical sites in Geocities, the simplicity of email discussion lists or the anonymity of IRC?

I first got online in 1993, back when the Web had a capital letter — three, in fact — and long before irony stretched its legs and unbuttoned its flan