What happened to websites? There was nothing wrong with them. If a big tech corporations wrote some good GUI-based office software for webpage design, and if that had become an office worker skill, we'd be in a very different place today. But now there is all this money in siloing users into services, and leaving webpage design to specialist application developers which would ensure this cannot happen via industry. Maybe we could do some damage repair via the commons, but we are playing catch-up when a generation or three have lost all the requisite knowledge to even use an office UI on a computer (as opposed to a cloud service). Nobody knows what directories and files are. They can't find their home folder on their computer. They don't know you can move or delete files. The early wave of tech enthusiasm in education has metastasized into an industry pipeline for future web application developers. No time for computer usage basics even for the corporate world's operating systems. There was a while where schools were so giddy about the future there were HTML classes for kids. Imagine what that could be with an easy to understand office-suite style webpage creator, and a world full of incredibly cheap webpage hosting like ours today. No we're in the timeline where things are siloed enough that the silos can setup official security checkpoints on behalf of the state, asking for identification. That was completely incompatible with the idea of a web with sites for everyone. Now all it takes are a few mergers and acquisitions, and buying out the right political lobbyists to take over all the single points of power. A lot of education and technology communication work lies ahead, and we still need the tools.