The Internet is Dead, Long Live the Internet?!

&ldquo;The internet is dead,&rdquo; many are saying . The arguments are persuasive: search engine results aren&rsquo;t very useful anymore, ads are constant, and corporate social networks seem to be mostly bots sharing AI slop . But the internet has died before. I spent my youth on Usenet groups, chatting on IRC channels and downloading games from FTP sites. Now those spaces are ghost towns—if…