‘But not so nice if you’re someone who has lots of bright ideas about what you and everyone else can do together with your network-connected computers. If you’re a bright young physicist at CERN in Geneva in 1989 and you’re noodling around with an idea for a “World Wide Web,” you need an end-to-end network to try it out. If you need permission from the world’s various Bell Systems, including Swisscom, among the most hidebound and anal-retentive telephone companies in the world (a category with stiff competition!), you might as well give up and go back to physics.’
—Cory Doctorow, “Enshittification”, p. 66