This week Mike and Erik wax nostalgic about the early days of the internet and then they wonder if all this trite nostalogizing (is that a word?) isn't really a dangerous or simply not-useful self-deception. Was stuff really better in the early days of the internet? What do you think? 

Check out some links:

- https://web.archive.org/
- profile of Jake Nickell from 2011 in the Chicago Reader
- Cory Doctorow's now-famous blogpost in Wired on "enshitiffication"

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