Arpanet was supposed to be decentralized. Now everyone wants to centralize everything so in a war it is sufficient to strike 100 data centers and the whole tethered economy collapses.

That is called progress.

EDIT: You can downvote the truth but still no one wants your "AI" slop.

Ah, the fond memories of telnetting to NCSA to upload the raw HTML of my first website, written on an OG Macintosh computer and ported via floppy to a PowerMac for network connectivity.

Simple, elegant. I do miss those days.